Investec US fund manager

Investec Asset Management's head of global equities Nick Mottram has taken over as manager of the group's offshore American Equity fund. This follows the departure of Julian Chillingworth to Rathbones where he is to take up a role as deputy chief investment officer under Hugh Priestly, helping to develop the group's investment process. Chillingworth, who will be lead manager on Rathbone funds in the future, according to unit trust managing director Peter Pearson Lund, has previously worked as head of European equities at Bankers Trust and as investment director for UK equities at GAM. ...