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Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Robeco, Downing

Editorial Staff

30 August 2017

Robeco
Dutch-based asset manager , has appointed Nigel Masding as a lead manager of the firm’s Real Income Builder Fund, a role placed within the firm’s Active Equity team. He will report to Nick Hartley, head of Inflation Plus strategies within the Active Equity team.

L&G Real Income Builder Fund is a fund launched in January 2015 for long-term income-0oriented institutional and retail investors. Masding joins LGIM from Longview Partners, an asset manager, where he was a partner and global equities research analyst. He has also held positions at HSBC Halbis Capital Management, where he was a senior equities portfolio manager, and at First State Investments and McKinsey & Company.

Earlier this month the firm also appointed Stephen Message as a fund manager within the Active Equity team. He will focus on UK income strategies and will report to Rod Oscroft, head of the High Alpha and Global Equity Income teams. Message has also held roles at Old Mutual Global Investors, managing the Old Mutual UK Equity Fund, and at Bessemer Trust, where he was an equity fund manager.