Henderson Global Investors has hired Glen Finegan as Head of Emerging Market Equities. He will join the Henderson team on 5 January 2015.
Glen will report to Graham Kitchen, Head of Equities, and will have responsibility for managing the £1bn (€1.26bn / US$1.73bn) global emerging markets’ equities’ (GEM) franchise based in the UK.
Most recently Glen was a senior portfolio manager at First State Stewart covering GEM all cap strategies. He managed US$3bn as lead manager and was co-lead on US$10bn. Before joining First State Stewart in 2001 he was a geophysicist within the oil and gas industry.
In addition, as part of the wider review of the emerging markets business, Chris Palmer will leave Henderson. Chris joined during the Gartmore acquisition in 2011 and served as Director of Emerging Market Equities.