Ex-Somerset Capital partner resurfaces at Pacific AM

Sebastian Stewart joins

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Pacific Asset Management has hired former Somerset Capital partner Sebastian Stewart as a partner and head of US institutional business development.

He will be based in the London office and report to global head of institutional sales Mary Murphy. Stewart spent over a decade at Somerset Capital, joining the firm in 2012. He was a partner, head of client services and deputy head of marketing. Four Somerset Capital managers join Polen Capital after UK fund range takeover Somerset Capital, co-founded by Jacob Rees-Mogg and minister for investment Dominic Johnson, closed late last year after losing two-thirds of its assets after its largest investor, St James's Place, severed ties with the firm. At Somerset, Stewart was respons...

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