Financial News presents a round-up of the top hires and job switches in the financial services industry that you may have missed over the past week.

AEW hires MSCI executive
Real estate fund manager AEW has appointed an MSCI executive to its capital raising and client management team. Doug Rowlands becomes a director at AEW, focusing on capital raising for investment into UK real estate from international investors. Rowlands joined MSCI in 2006 and was a vice-president and head of UK client consultancy fund management when he left the index business in July.