Bhanot spent three years as a research analyst at Redburn preceded by five-year spell as a management consultant with Space Strategy, the firm said in a statement.
 
Hoelzl spent seven years at Ruffer where she was an investment manager. Prior to that, she worked at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University and at KPMG, Cairns, the firm continued.

These appointments reflect the growth of the firm over recent years. They will play a key role in identifying and monitoring the candidate companies that form the concentrated portfolios of the three Seilern quality growth equity funds Seilern World Growth, Seilern America and Seilern Europa, the firm continued. 

Typically, these funds hold no more than approximately 20 holdings each. 

Welcoming them to the firm, Tassilo Seilern, CEO of Seilern, said: “We continue to focus our resources to further strengthen the implementation of our investment process. We warmly welcome Akash and Charalee who have joined us in this continuous quest to invest in only the best quality growth businesses.” 

“We are delighted to have attracted these two seasoned analysts who fully subscribe to our long-term investment strategy,” he added.

Seilern Investment Management is a quality growth equity investment firm, serving pension funds, and other institutional investors including family offices and fund of funds as well as advisory and discretionary intermediaries via platforms throughout Europe, with  total assets under management of about $2.3billion.