Sarasin's Whitehead exits to lead global income team at Martin Currie

Alice Rigby
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Mark Whitehead has left Sarasin & Partners to lead Martin Currie's rejigged equity income team.

Martin Currie has overhauled the team, which now manages £517m in assets, hiring Whitehead to lead a new unit which includes existing fund managers Alan Porter, Ross Watson and David Forsyth. Whitehead (pictured) will join in the fourth quarter. He will be based in Edinburgh and report to head of investment, John Pickard. At Sarasin, he managed the Sarasin Global Higher Dividend fund since 2007 and the Global Dividend fund since 2013. A partner at the firm, as head of equity income he oversaw a total of £900m in assets. Darryl Lucas, who worked alongside Whitehead at Sarasin, will ...

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