Jupiter promotes Patel to co-manager on Japan funds

Working alongside Dan Carter

Jupiter Asset Management has promoted Mitesh Patel to fund manager on its Japanese funds alongside Dan Carter.

Patel, who joined the firm as assistant fund manager in 2016, stepped up as fund manager for the £576m Jupiter Japan Income and $143.5m (£111m) Jupiter Japan Select funds in January. Patel joined Jupiter from Barings, where he ran the firm's Japan fund, having begun his career at BlackRock. Wagstaff and Formica: Jupiter move was about getting back to something much more focused Carter, who joined Jupiter in 2008 and has led its Japanese strategy since 2016, told Investment Week "it was always going to be a case of promoting [Patel] so we were both fund managers on the strategy". ...