Bacon & Woodrow has boosted its investment consulting team with three new hires.

Rupert Hall joins from JP Morgan Chase where he was managing fixed income investments. He will strengthen the UK investment consultancy's expertise in bonds and currencies. Robert Chapman will be dedicated to the researching and rating fund management division, and joins the firm from Manulife, where he worked in the international office. Leon Beukes joins the firm from South Africa's largest multi-manager Investment Solutions, and will help develop Bacon & Woodrow's new systems for analysing managers' portfolios and processes. The new hires come as Bacon & Woodrow earlier in the week lost Paul Lavin and Alexandra Mann, members of Gihan Ismail's fund manager research team. Both have joined multi-manager investment companies.