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A SHEFFIELD HAWORTH PUBLICATION EUROPEAN ASSET A summary featuring people news, industry updates with market trends and analysis MANAGEMENT Patrick Morrissey H2 2019 Charles Bruce-Smythe Henry Spence Peter Hughes Tom Eagar Henry Milton H2 2019, Asset Management Overview – Europe MARKET OVERVIEW The asset management industry has seen a variety of challenges in the second half of the year with illiquid investments and company governance in the limelight. In the last six months, the industry saw Woodford Investment Management close its doors in October and H20 Asset Management suffer £1.2bn in withdrawals in one week in the summer. The second half also saw similar trends that defined the first half of the year. A “white-hot” bond market (according to the FT in December) continued and again, despite the escalation in the US-China trade wars and political volatility in the UK, equities have improved. ESG continued to grab the market’s attention with more and more inflows into ESG orientated funds, to the point where the FT labelled 2019 as the ‘year capitalism went cuddly’. Nevertheless, like any fast- growing innovation, it is not without its teething problems. While everyone appears to now know what ESG means, not everyone has settled on how to ‘do’ ESG. This diversity in approach can be a real challenge in an area short on long-term executive expertise. Peter Sanderson was appointed Group Chief Executive TABLE OF CONTENTS Officer of GAM, joining from BlackRock where he was a member of the European Executive Committee. Market Overview . Kames Capital confirmed that Martin Davis, the CEO for six Business Development years was stepping down, with the CIO Stephen Jones acting as interim CEO. - Institutional . After only three years, Matt Duncan, Chief Executive of - Wholesale Ostrum Asset Management in Paris stood down, being replaced by Phillipe Setbon, who was previously CEO of ESG Groupama AM. Investment and Product - Equities “A white-hot bond market…continued…despite the escalation in the US-China trade wars” - Fixed Income - Multi-Asset . Nicolas Moreau was appointed CEO of HSBC Global Asset Management. He was previously CEO of European Asset - Alternatives Management at DWS. His predecessor, Sri Chandrasekharan will take on another role within the HSBC Contact Details Group. PGIM Investments has hired Ray Ahn from Capital Group as their new Chief Marketing officer as well as Indy Reddy, who joins the business as the Global CTO and COO and joins the firm from Citi Private Bank. This is a private and confidential document prepared by Sheffield Haworth 2 H2 2019, Asset Management Overview – Europe BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT The relentless pressure on fees in the institutional market does not appear to have reduced at all in the second half of 2019. Yet, despite that, Sheffield Haworth has seen robust hiring in this space. We see this, in part, as a continuation of the increasing sophistication required to be a competitive salesperson as well as a recognition that with fees so low, scale is key to a successful institutional business. Challenges and Opportunities While liquid assets continue to be the bread and butter of traditional asset managers, the focus on alternatives has created demand for sales leaders who can convincingly cover a broad range of asset classes. While this ties into the longer-term trend of more and more technical sales leaders, it presents an opportunity for candidates who do have this skillset to set themselves apart from the rest of the market. INSTITUTIONAL SELECTED PEOPLE MOVES: Asset Management One has hired Andrea Favaloro as Head of EMEA Business Development. Previously Andrea was Head of Sales at Generali Investments before he founded his own business. Atlas Infrastructure has hired Sam Carter as Head of Distribution from Kames Capital where he was Head of GFIs. BMO Global Asset Management has hired Dominic Delaforce into their UK Institutional Sales team from Aberdeen Standard Investments where he was a Director. Insight Investment has hired Andrew Stephens as Head of EMEA Distribution from BlackRock where he was previously Head of UK Institutional Client Business. Janus Henderson Investors has hired Norbert Fullerton as Head of Institutional Client Strategy from MJ Hudson Allenbridge where he was a Senior Advisor. Nuveen has hired Greg Ohlson as Head of UK Consultant Relations from Pinebridge Investments where he was a Consultant Relations Manager. River & Mercantile has hired David Hanratty as Global Head of Distribution. Prior to this, David was Head of UK & Ireland and Head of Global Accounts at Pioneer Investments. Western Asset Management has hired Dan Blass as Head of UK Institutional Sales. He previously worked for Legal & General Investment Management as a Client Services Executive. This is a private and confidential document prepared by Sheffield Haworth 3 H2 2019, Asset Management Overview – Europe WHOLESALE SELECTED PEOPLE MOVES: Capital Group has hired Manuel Geiler as a German Intermediaries Salesperson from Oddo BHF where he was previously Head of Capital Markets Advisory. PGIM Investments have appointed Pascal Weber as Head of Financial Intermediaries from AllianceBernstein, where he was Head of Swiss Intermediary Sales. CTAM has hired Eva Maria Hinter as Country Head for Switzerland from Aviva Investors where she was Head of Swiss Wholesale. Novia Global have appointed Steve Andrews as a member of the Board and lead for business development from Aberdeen Standard Investments where he was Head of Third Party and Major Distribution, UK. Wholesale. RELATED HIRES: Carmignac has hired David Beacham and Edward Aram-Dixon into their Sales team as Business Development Director and Business Development Manager. Janus Henderson Investors has hired Christopher Garcia, Dipesh Amin and Mark Buckley as regional salespeople from Old Mutual Wealth, Aberdeen Standard Investments and Kames Capital respectively. Liontrust has hired Carol Hyner and Gonzalo Thomé into their sales team. Carol is a Multi Asset Salesperson covering East Anglia and Northern counties and Gonzalo will become an International Sales Director. Asset Management Exchange have appointed Christopher Head as Head of Business Development. He was previously at BlackRock where he was Head of UK Local Authorities. This is a private and confidential document prepared by Sheffield Haworth 4 H2 2019, Asset Management Overview – Europe ESG After almost three years of firms choosing to take ESG seriously and implement it into their business, we have reached a new hiring paradigm in the world of ESG. Up until now, ESG leadership hires have come off the back of senior decision makers wanting to have someone “do ESG” within their firm. However, three-to- five years into this cycle, asset management leaders have had time to grapple with what “doing ESG” actually means for their business. Challenges and Opportunities As such, we are beginning to see a new style of ESG hiring, where ESG leadership candidates are not expected to arrive with the ESG answer already fully formed, front-to-back. Instead, leaders are looking for specific skillsets that sit underneath the broad ESG umbrella. We expect to see these types of searches much more heading into 2020. SELECTED PEOPLE MOVES: BlackRock has hired Eric Rice as Head of Active Equity Impact Investing from Wellington Management where he was Head of Impact Investing. Goldman Sachs Asset Management has hired Niamh Whooley as an ESG Expert to work closely with Corporate Research Analysts to identify the ESG and Sustainability themes. Prior to this, Niamh worked for PIMCO as their Head of ESG in USA and sat on their ESG Executive Leadership Committee. JO Hambro Capital Management has hired Hermes Investment Management’s Impact Equity team consisting of Fund Manager Tim Crockford and analysts Mohsin Ahmad, Maxime Le Floch and Maxine Wille. Lombard Odier has hired Christopher Kaminker and Ebba Lepage as Head of Sustainable Investment Research and Strategy and Head of Corporate Sustainability respectively. Christopher joined from SEB where he was Head of Sustainable Finance Research and Ebba joins from Stora Enso previously a corporate finance and M&A VP. Neuberger Berman has hired Keita Kubota as a Japanese Equity PM (ESG Focus) from Aberdeen Standard Investments where he was Deputy Head of Japanese Equities. Newton Investment Management has hired Andrew Parry as Head of Sustainable Investing from Hermes Investment Management where he was previously an Impacting Investment Strategist. Royal London Asset Management has hired Carlota Garcia Manas and Beth Goldsmith as Responsible Investment Analysts from Church of England National Investing Body and KPMG respectively. State Street Global Advisors has hired Carlo Funk as Head of ESG strategy from BlackRock where he was an ESG Specialist. This is a private and confidential document prepared by Sheffield Haworth 5 H2 2019, Asset Management Overview – Europe INVESTMENT AND PRODUCT EQUITIES Aside from Woodford’s fund being shut down, equities as an asset class has not seen significant changes over the last six months. Recent research of over 12,400 global stocks has shown that 78% of stocks failed to beat the S&P 500 over two-year period. This has made all non-US asset classes look weak and this has been reflected in the hiring market this half year. Challenges and Opportunities Where we continue to see an interest however is in high conviction, alpha orientated funds, which will continue to be the most obvious differentiator for active funds over passive funds. This inevitably will create more of a ‘winner-takes-all’ market dynamic, meaning that making the right fund manager hire will be more critical than ever. SELECT TEAM MOVES: Janus Henderson Investors has hired Putnam Investments’ Global EM Equities team including Portfolio Manager Daniel Grana and Analysts Matthew Culley, Matthew Doody and Peter Li to replace the individuals who left the firm to join Skerryvore Asset Management earlier in the year. M&G Investments has hired the Port Meadow Capital Management APAC Equity Team after the boutique was wound down in the Summer of 2019.