Martin Currie reorganising

The group has decided to ditch geographical desk heads for a more specialist team approach

Martin Currie has completed the reorganisation of its investment management team with the abolition of geographic desk heads. The group is in the process of unveiling the new structure to its US institutional clients later this week. While individual managers will remain in charge of named products, such as Jeff Saunders on the UK growth fund, most have been put into global sector teams, each under a sector specialist. Each of the nine teams follows a sector within the MSCI World Index. As a result, the Martin Currie International Growth unit trust, run by Tom Walker, is now looking to ...