You Asset Management has recruited a fund manager, a client relationship manager and an investment administration manager as the DFM seeks to bolster its investment team.
Fund manager Chris Ayton (pictured) will work alongside Cormac Nevin and Shane Balkham in managing You’s model portfolios and Multi-Asset Blend fund. He will particularly focus on UK, global emerging market and European equities, and property & real assets.
He brings 27 years of industry experience to the role, having been a portfolio manager at Alternative Investment Group from 2008 until 2020. He was most recently an investment due diligence consultant at the National University of Singapore.
Nick Heath has joined from Capital Asset Management as a client relationship manager. He has two decades of experience in the industry, previously holding senior positions at 7IM and Societe Generale.
Heath’s role will include executing You’s business development strategy and identifying opportunities for driving its value proposition for clients.
Kira Parker has been appointed investment administration manager, joining from Liontrust Asset Management where she had been since 2014. Initially, she was an investment operations executive at Liontrust before being promoted to manager of multi-asset investment support in 2018.
Derrick Dunne, CEO of You Asset Management, said: “I am delighted to welcome Nick, Chris and Kira to the team at what is an extremely exciting time for You.”
He continued: “We have ambitious plans to develop the business and I have no doubt we can achieve these aims by working with people like Nick, Chris and Kira, who share our central goal creating investment solutions that add genuine value to advisers and their clients.”
