Guinness Atkinson Hires National Sales Director

Frank Zukowski was appointed national sales director of Guinness Atkinson Asset Management, adviser to the Guinness Atkinson Funds.

Zukowski will focus on serving registered investment advisers (RIAs) and bank trust departments. The core of his distribution efforts will be explaining the role of the firm’s mutual fund strategies developed for investing in emerging Asia, global conventional and alternative energy sectors.

Zukowski has 23 years of experience in financial services. Before joining Guinness Atkinson, he was the senior vice president and director of RIA Consulting Group at Cohen & Steers, where he built and led the team responsible for sales and client services to RIAs and bank trusts, and co-headed the national accounts group.

Never miss a story — sign up for PLANADVISER newsletters to keep up on the latest retirement plan adviser news.

Before joining Cohen & Steers, Zukowski held several senior positions in financial adviser-related activities at Merrill Lynch, including vice president of office of investment performance, training financial advisers on asset allocation and investment performance-related products and services.

Zukowski holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers University.

F-Squared Names Retirement Unit President

Paul Gamble was appointed managing director and president of retirement solutions at F-Squared, an investment management firm in Newton, Massachusetts.

Gamble will join F-Squared’s management committee and play a critical part in guiding overall strategy. He has over 20 years of experience in the retirement industry, most recently serving as executive vice president of distribution and institutional services at Financial Engines Inc., where he was responsible for all sales and client-facing functions, as well as the firm’s top-line revenue goals. 

As president of F-Squared retirement solutions, Gamble will be responsible for the firm’s full suite of next-generation investment solutions targeted toward the DC and retirement markets, including customized and private-labeled, target-date strategies and funds, collective trust funds and sub-advisory partnerships in the retirement market.

For more stories like this, sign up for the PLANADVISERdash daily newsletter.

Gamble’s previous positions include vice president of institutional retirement sales at Scudder Investments, and vice president of institutional retirement sales at Fidelity Investments. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Defined Contribution Institutional Investments Association (DCIIA), and is vice chair of the research and surveys committee.

«