With over 30 years’ investment management experience, focused on Asian, emerging and developed market equities for major global institutions in Asia, America and Europe, Gibbs joins from Henderson Rowe, where he was a senior portfolio manager.

Having started his career at Manulife, the Canadian life insurance company, Gibbs then moved to Hong Kong with Carlson Investment Management, for whom he managed funds in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Eastern Europe and Asian Small Caps. On his return to the UK he managed market neutral strategies for Quaestor Investment Management, and then with New Star Asset Management, with responsibility for Japanese institutional mandates.

A Chartered Fellow of the CISI, and reporting directly to Broad Street’s founder and chief executive, John Morton, Gibbs will be responsible for investment strategy and key client relationships.