Casson will join the team headed by Tim Steer on the Artemis UK Growth Fund, as well as segregated institutional UK growth accounts and the Artemis UK Hedge Fund.
The Artemis UK Growth Fund has outperformed its sector average over both one and three years, returning 17.6% versus 14.9% and 36.9% versus 24.2% over the respective time frames, according to FE Trustnet. Its returns place it in the second quartile over one year, and the first over three years.
The fund’s most recent factsheet can be viewed here.
The £65.1m UK Hedge Fund has also performed well, particularly in the past three years when it has significantly outperformed its sector. The graph plots the performance of the fund over the past five years.
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Casson, who has worked for Martin Currie and SVM, left his most recent role at Henderson following an equities shake up at the end of last year.
Yiu has left the firm to return to his native Hong Kong.
