London-headquartered investment firm Smith & Williamson has appointed David Barfoot to the newly-created role of head of Fund Sales. Barfoot joins Smith & Williamson from JP Morgan Asset Management, where he was sales executive director, covering discretionary clients including wealth managers, DFMs, fund of funds and private banks. Reporting to Ed Rosengarten and based in London, Barfoot will oversee the sales team and focus on growing the group’s funds’ assets.This includes the Short-Dated Corporate Bond fund managed by Ian Kenny, the Global Inflation-Linked Bond fund headed by Thomas Wells, the Enterprise fund led by Mark Boucher, and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) fund run by Chris Ford and Tim Day. Commenting on Barfoot’s appointment, David Cobb, co-chief executive at Smith & Williamson, said: “I am delighted that David has joined the firm to help accelerate the growth in this key area for Smith & Williamson. He has the right experience and ability to drive growth in our funds proposition, which includes access to exciting thematic opportunities as well as strategies providing diversified global inflation protection and proven UK equity long/short expertise.”