Andrew Holliman was manager of the group’s flagship £1.6bn American fund until last month when he left to join boutique Polar Capital. Management of the fund has since been taken over by the group’s head of US equities, Cormac Weldon.
Richard Wilson, who worked on a number of the group’s institutional US mandates, also left the group earlier this year.
Sobin joins Threadneedle in September from Columbia Management, a fellow asset management subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, where she is a New-York based manager for US equities. According to the group Sobin’s career in financial services spans 28 years, specialising more recently in US value portfolio management, running mid and large-cap portfolios.
Chowdhury has already joined Threadneedle, moving over from Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division where he was an analyst in the UK M&A team.
The additions bring Threadneedle’s US equities team to a total of eight, with three fund managers and five analysts. The group is still looking to add one further fund manager to its team. Until Sobin joins the group in the autumn it will not be decided who will head up any of the individual portfolios.
