Investment banking boutique Noble has added a retail analyst and two sales staff to its equities team in London, as the group continues to hire selectively for the division after increasing headcount significantly over the last year.

Sanjay Vidyarthi, previously a small and mid-cap equities analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort, has joined Noble as a lead analyst covering the retail sector, while Mileen Rash joins from asset manager Henderson Global Investors, where he had been a European equities fund manager, as an equity salesman.