Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has completed a restructuring of its international equities team with the appointment of Ian Vose, who left RCM, Allianz's fund management subsidiary, 12 months ago.

Vose , who joins SWIP at the end of July, will assume the newly created post of head of global developed market equities and will be responsible for managing SWIP's global, Japanese and US equity funds with a combined value of £7.4bn (€10.7bn).