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Wellington Management Deepens Commitment to Wealth Channel With Senior Leadership Hire

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Wellington Management Deepens Commitment to Wealth Channel With Senior Leadership Hire
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Wellington Management Deepens Commitment to Wealth Channel With Senior Leadership Hire

2025-03-31 21:02 Last Updated At:21:20

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 31, 2025--

Wellington Management (“Wellington”), one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, has hired Christina Kopec Rooney as the Head of US Wealth, based in New York. Ms. Rooney brings over 25 years of experience in asset management, strategy, and execution to this new role, where she will lead Wellington's efforts to enhance its offerings for the wealth channel and drive growth in the US market.

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Ms. Rooney joins Wellington from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), where she served as Managing Director and Head of Commercial and Digital Strategy for Global Third Party Wealth. In this role, she led a multi-year growth strategy for the business and oversaw a team responsible for sales enablement and business intelligence. From 2011 to 2024, she held various leadership roles at GSAM, including Head of Digital Retail Product Management and Global Head of Liquidity Solutions Product. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ms. Rooney held several senior positions with Fidelity Investments across fixed income product management and equity product research and development.

"We are thrilled to welcome Christina to Wellington," said Scott Geary, Vice Chair and Head of Global Wealth at Wellington Management. "Her extensive experience and proven track record in the asset management industry make her well-suited to drive our US wealth strategy forward. We are confident that Christina's leadership will help us deliver value to our clients and further grow our presence in the US wealth market."

The appointment is part of Wellington's broader strategy to expand its capabilities in the wealth channel, where the firm currently subadvises and manages over $600 billion in US wealth assets across mutual funds, ETFs, VITs, separately managed accounts, and alternative asset vehicles. In her new role, Ms. Rooney will work closely with the firm's leadership team to develop and execute strategies that enhance client engagement, drive growth, and strengthen Wellington's position as a leading player in US wealth.

"I look forward to working with the talented team at Wellington as it expands its presence in US wealth and broadens the availability of its investment solutions," said Ms. Rooney. "Wellington's commitment to investment excellence and its strong client focus closely aligns with my own values and vision.”

About Wellington Management

Wellington Management is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, serving as a trusted adviser to over 2,500 clients in more than 60 countries. The firm manages more than US$1.2 trillion, as of 31 December 2024, for pensions, endowments and foundations, insurers, family offices, fund sponsors, global wealth managers, and other clients. Wellington aspires to provide excellent service to clients through a unique combination of independence enabled by its distinctive private partnership model, diverse perspectives through its unified, multi-asset investment platform, and relentless curiosity and intellectual rigor fostered by its enduring collaborative culture.

Christina Kopec Rooney

Christina Kopec Rooney

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.

Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as U.S. forces continue to seize tankers in an effort to control the production, refining and global distribution of the country's oil products.

Trump said on social media that Cuba long lived off Venezuelan oil and money and had offered security in return, “BUT NOT ANYMORE!”

“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO!” Trump said in the post as he spent the weekend at his home in southern Florida. “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” He did not explain what kind of deal.

The Cuban government said 32 of its military personnel were killed during the American operation last weekend that captured Maduro. The personnel from Cuba’s two main security agencies were in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, as part of an agreement between Cuba and Venezuela.

“Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,” Trump said Sunday. “Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will.”

Trump also responded to another account’s social media post predicting that his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will be president of Cuba: “Sounds good to me!” Trump said.

Trump and top administration officials have taken an increasingly aggressive tone toward Cuba, which had been kept economically afloat by Venezuela. Long before Maduro's capture, severe blackouts were sidelining life in Cuba, where people endured long lines at gas stations and supermarkets amid the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Trump has said previously that the Cuban economy, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, would slide further with the ouster of Maduro.

“It’s going down,” Trump said of Cuba. “It’s going down for the count.”

A person watches the oil tanker Ocean Mariner, Monrovia, arrive to the bay in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A person watches the oil tanker Ocean Mariner, Monrovia, arrive to the bay in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

President Donald Trump attends a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump attends a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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