Momentum Global Investment Management, the UK-based business, has appointed John Alexander as a business development manager.

Alexander joins Momentum from Miton where he was latterly head of sales.  He has thirteen years’ experience in intermediary sales gained across a range of fund management, insurance and private client businesses.

In his new role, Alexander will focus on the development and growth of Momentum’s business with financial advisors and wealth managers in the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with an emphasis on highlighting Momentum’s flagship proposition, the Factor Series fund range.

In other recent developments at the firm, earlier in them month Momentum launched a new Africa Fixed Income Fund.  The fund, which is managed by David Lashbrook, head of Africa fixed interest markets, MGIM, and supported by Zee de Gersigny and the Momentum Africa team, uses a range of complimentary underlying investment specialists based in the UK and across Africa.