BlackRock has added three senior hires to its financial institutions group to work on outsourced asset management from Emea insurers. Tom Haas Carstensen has joined in Copenhagen as a director to build the Nordic region FIG client base. He previously worked at Danica Pension. Riccardo Stucchi has joined the Milan office where he will build the Italian FIG business. He was previously based in Paris working with French institutional clients for the firm. Sylvain Favre-Gilly will remain in charge of the overall institutional business in France. Olivier Defaux joins from the firm's financial markets advisory group. He will remain in London and will develop relationships with large strategic clients.