People moves

Anas Afzal

Succeeds Mark Tucker

50-year career

Global Emerging Markets Equity fund

Former head of investment stewardship at TCorp

Philip Fielding and Valentina Chen will join as co-heads of EMD

ii CEO Richard Wilson will move across to abrdn and continue to lead the platform

Birch will join from Deloitte in the summer of 2022

The trio join from Invesco, Ruffer and Smith & Williamson

Tom Hughes hired