Mark Watson has joined the Morningstar Investment Management group, a unit of Morningstar Inc., as Director of UK Intermediary Sales for the Morningstar OBSR Managed Portfolios service. Watson has more than 17 years of financial services experience. He joins Morningstar from Brooks Macdonald, where he spent three years as Head of Sales for the firm's funds business.

Watson also worked for Zurich Intermediary Group, working with advisers in the south-east of England, for Barclays in Dubai, and for SHUAA Capital where he advised on investment portfolios for high net worth individuals.