DWS Investments announced the appointment of Scott Brooks as a director responsible for third party insurance national accounts.
Brooks will be responsible for managing client relationships with insurance companies and sub-advised mutual fund firms. He will be based in New York reporting to Michael Woods, a managing director and US head of distribution for DWS Investments Distributors.
Brooks has over 20 years of investment management distribution experience spanning both the retail and institutional markets with a focus on the defined contribution marketplace. He joins DWS Investments from JPMorgan Asset Management where, as a vice president, he helped the funds management and global real asset divisions build their defined contribution, investment-only (DCIO) distribution platforms. Prior to JPMorgan, he served as a director and led the DCIO business for Managers Investment Group. He also spent more than 16 years at OppenheimerFunds where he founded and led the firm’s DCIO business team. -Business Wire
