Northern Trust Appoints Caroline Higgins as Head of Global Fund Services, Asia Pacific

​(Source: Northern Trust)

​Northern Trust, a leading financial service company, has named Caroline Higgins as head of Global Fund Services (GFS), Asia Pacific, effective 1 October 2023.

Higgins will be responsible for overseeing services to global investment managers including fund administration, depositary, global custody, transfer agency, investment operations outsourcing and data solutions – supporting a range of complex investment strategies across the full spectrum of asset classes.

Higgins, who joined Northern Trust in 2016, was most recently head of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan at Northern Trust. In her new role, she will return to her native Australia, where she will focus on leveraging Northern Trust's global capabilities and expand regional products and services for Northern Trust's asset manager clients. She will report to Toby Glaysher, president, GFS.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2016, she held senior leadership, product and client management positions within Asia, Europe and Australia working at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), State Street, RBC Global Services, UBS Brinson and Citibank.

"We are pleased to name Caroline to this role overseeing our GFS activities region-wide," said Glaysher. "We see continued growth and increasing opportunity to offer our solutions to clients in Asia Pacific. Caroline's industry expertise, capabilities, and experience working at Northern Trust across Asia, both focused on the region's leading asset managers and Northern Trust's global clients, will ensure we are well placed to continue to support their evolving needs."

As so far, Northern Trust has an established network of offices across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Pune, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.