Jupiter has announced a raft of promotions across its investment team, with firm aiming to develop the management capabilities of its key strategies. This includes products such as its European equities, UK small and mid-cap and fixed income, and global and emerging market debt funds.
The following four members of its investment team have now been named as fund managers across the listed strategies.
Sohil Chotai - European Equities
David Cameron-Mowat - UK Small and Mid-Cap Equities
Hilary Blandy - Jupiter Monthly Income Bond
Reza Karim – Emerging Market Debt
Mr Chotai joined Jupiter in 2019 as part of its new team taking responsibility for the European Equities strategy, led by co-heads of strategy Mark Nichols and Mark Heslop.
Working in partnership with Mark Nichols, he will now become co-manager of the Jupiter European Special Situations fund, while continuing to work across Jupiter’s full range of European equities funds.
Mr Cameron-Mowat’s promotion will take on the management of the Jupiter UK Smaller Companies Focus fund, while previous manager Nick Williamson will move to focus exclusively on the management of Chrysalis Investments.
Having joined Jupiter in 2020 following the acquisition of Merian Global Investors, Mr Cameron-Mowat has been a core member of the UK SMID team for over six years. As deputy on both the Jupiter UK Smaller Companies and Jupiter UK Smaller Companies Focus funds, he has contributed to portfolio construction and stock selection decisions during his time at Jupiter.
Ms Blandy has been co-managing the monthly income bond product since last September, and
has been with the firm since 2012. She has extensive experience as a senior credit analyst on Jupiter’s global flexible bond strategy over many years, while also managing a key component of the fixed income allocation across Jupiter’s multi asset strategy, managed by head of strategy, multi-asset, Talib Sheikh.
In addition, she will retain these responsibilities as part of her new role.
Since joining Jupiter in May 2017, Mr Karim has focused on the company’s EMD offering, and has contributed to the funds’ performance and AUM growth since its inception. In his new role he will continue to work across Jupiter’s full range of emerging market debt funds, collaborating closely with head of EMD Alejandro Arevalo and will be supported by a dedicated team of analysts.
Stephen Pearson, chief investment officer, Jupiter, commented: “I am delighted to be making these promotions across our investment team. At Jupiter we are committed to sustaining our strong active investment culture, retaining and nurturing talented individuals as they progress through their careers, and as such it is particularly pleasing to recognise the contribution of ‘home grown talent’ as they step up to take on further responsibilities. These are all strategies that we view as fundamental to delivering on our strategic ambitions as a company – offering clients a broad and diversified choice of attractive opportunities, run by management teams committed to high conviction, active management.”
Jupiter is a specialist, high conviction, active asset manager, founded in 1985. The firm is a constituent member of the FTSE 250 Index, and has assets under management of £58.8 billion.
