Jim Stride is set to retire from AXA Investment Managers in June after 35 years, Investment Week can reveal.
Stride is manager of the £892m AXA Distribution fund, which he has run for 33 years, while his career in asset management spans 41 years. The entire AXA Distribution fund range will be taken over fully by Jamie Forbes-Wilson and Matthew Huddart, who have been co-managers on the Distribution range with Stride since February 2016. Forbes-Wilson joined AXA IM in 2003 and has managed the AXA Framlington Blue Chip Equity Income fund since inception. Meanwhile, Huddart joined the UK equities desk in 2000 and became co-manager of the AXA Ethical Distribution fund and AXA Defensive Distrib...
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