Former Neptune sales head Daniel Lee has resurfaced at the London office of US asset manager GQG Partners.
Lee was one of a string of recent departures from Neptune exiting in October 2018. He had only joined the firm in September 2017 and became a board member the following February.
Before Neptune, he was director and head of UK sales at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management.
At GQG Partners, he will be focused on developing the firm’s presence in the UK and Ireland.
The Florida firm was founded in 2016 by veteran Vontobel alum Rajiv Jain. It takes a quality approach to global equities and touts its “diverse and non-traditional” team of analysts that challenge “the short-term projections and backward-looking dogma that tend to dominate market discourse”.
Jain is one of the managers that makes up the Alliance Trust global equities portfolio.
Lee said: “Rajiv Jain’s GQG Partners is one of the fastest growing, truly active equity investment managers in the world and is expanding as others retrench. I believe I will be able to make an important contribution to broadening GQG Partners’ UK and Ireland client-base, and I look forward to introducing the global and emerging market capabilities of this dynamic manager to the wholesale market.”
Lee will report to head of international Mark Barker, who is also in the London office.
Barker said: “Dan brings his 20 years of investment experience and his extensive knowledge of the UK and Irish markets to the actively growing GQG Partners team. He will be at the forefront of our expansion into this important investment sector.”
