Artemis hires two for launch of global equities franchise

Artemis has hired Simon Edelsten and Alex Illingworth to build a new global stockpicking franchise for retail and institutional clients.

Edelsten and Illingworth will be managing global equity mandates, based on a fundamental stockpicking approach. This new strategy will add to Artemis' global product range, and help meet the firm's view to exploit an opportunity for growth, it said. Artemis' senior partner Mark Tyndall said: "The demand for active, global mandates is clear. So we are very pleased to have Simon and Alex joining us. They are both talented and entrepreneurial fund managers who, like us, want to build long-term relationships with investors. "Having bought the business back and reformed as a partnership...