Alliance Trust, the UK-based investment manager, has appointed Ilario Di Bon as head of global equities, effective from 1 July.

Di Bon was latterly head of institutional global equities at Fidelity International, where as part of his role he helped manage the firm’s Global Opportunities Fund. Before this he worked in both London and Japan for UBS Global Asset Management, holding various senior roles in global and Japanese equities before becoming lead portfolio manager for global equities.

Alliance Trust is headquartered in Dundee, Scotland, and had £2.9 billion ($4.7 billion) in assets under management at end January 2011.