Liontrust expands European income team with Argonaut hire

Former roles at Maris Capital and HSBC

Liontrust Asset Management has hired Oisín O'Leary as assistant fund manager within the group's European income team.

O'Leary will support Olly Russ, the group's head of European income, in running the £180m European Income and £58m European Enhanced Income funds. He joins Liontrust from Argonaut Capital Partners, where he was an investment analyst. Prior to that, he worked as an investment analyst at Maris Capital, and a debt capital markets analyst at HSBC. Olly Russ, who worked with O'Leary in his former role at Argonaut, said: "In this ongoing low interest rate environment, investors will have to look further afield than the UK in their hunt for income, and Europe's deep pool of companies with at...