Morley Fund Management, the UK fund management house owned by insurer Aviva, has appointed David Watson as chief financial officer and member of the firm's board to replace Gerard Quirke, who has resigned.

Watson was most recently the group finance director of M&G Group, which he joined in 1994. Following the acquisition of M&G by Prudential in 1999, Watson became the finance director of the merged asset management businesses of the two groups.