Kepler hires ex-Sloane Robinson CIO Ed Butchart

Joins alongside three senior analysts

Kepler Partners has hired Ed Butchart and three research analysts from Sloane Robinson after the firm shut down at the end of 2020.

Butchart was previously CIO at the London-based hedge fund since 2011 and had been manager of the KLS Emerging Markets fund, which was launched on Kepler's Liquid Strategies Platform in July 2017. The fund, which was originally launched in partnership with Sloane Robinson, will continue to be run by Butchert and his team, which comprises senior analysts Rohit Agarwal, Patrick Christiansen and Andreas Valanides, who will join him at Kepler. Kepler launches pair of US alternative strategies Tom Trotter, senior Partner and head of sales at Kepler Partners, said he was "delighted" the ...