Rathbone Brothers, the investment management group, has recruited Helen Hawthorn to fill the new position of regional sales manager for its unit trust subsidiary, Rathbone Unit Trust Management.

Hawthorn joins Rathbone Unit Trust, which was formed in November, from Templeton Investment Management, where she was business development executive responsible for promoting the company's products to independent financial advisers in London and the South of England. Prior to that she was a broker sales manager at Murray Johnston.