Mercer scoops Japan role

the Move follows transfer of matt harris to head up aegon's three ailing large cap UK funds

Aegon's Japan desk is to be headed up by Craig Mercer, formerly an analyst on the desk, following the move of fund manager Matt Harris to head up Aegon's ailing large cap UK funds. Harris officially took the helm of the group's three UK funds, Equity Growth, UK Tactical and UK Equity Income, at the start of July. He was head of the Japan desk at Aegon since September 1999 and has been in handover to the UK desk since February. He said he does not intend to change the number of stocks in each of the funds for tactical reasons and any increase or decrease has simply been done on a stock-p...