Old Mutual Global Investors, with £14.8 billion ($24 billion) of assets under management, has appointed James Gilbert as an analyst in the UK small- and mid-cap equities team, reporting to Daniel Nickols, who leads this group.

Gilbert has worked in this sector of the market for over five years, starting his career at Deutsche Bank in 2005 moving to Canaccord Genuity in 2008 as a support services equity research analyst.

With the recent addition of Richard Buxton’s, Errol Francis’ Rob James’ and Ed Meier’s large-cap investment capabilities alongside its UK small- and mid-cap, UK All Companies and UK equity income teams, the firm said it has a “market leading suite” of long-only and long-short UK equity investment strategies.