Baillie Gifford adds co-managers to Japanese mandates

See and Hjertman promoted

Laura Dew
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Baillie Gifford has appointed two co-managers to its Japanese Income Growth and Japanese Smaller Companies funds.

Karen See will become a co-manager on the £109m Japanese Income Growth fund alongside Matthew Brett while Felicia Hjertman will work as co-manager on the £300m Japanese Smaller Companies fund with Praveen Kumar. Both appointments will take place with immediate effect. See joined Baillie Gifford as a graduate in 2012 and has worked as part as the Japanese equities team since her arrival. Hjertman joined the firm in 2011 and has been a part of the Japanese team for the past two years. The Japan funds set to benefit from BOJ's  'imaginative' measures James Budden, director of re...

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