Ex-Colonial set to launch first product

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Ex-Colonial First State fund manager Henry Thornton has set up on his own. The new London-based offs...

Ex-Colonial First State fund manager Henry Thornton has set up on his own. The new London-based offshore investment company is called BDT and, although no details have been released as yet, he hopes to launch his first product early next year. Thornton was head of emerging markets at Colonial First State until earlier this year when the company bought Stewart Ivory. In a move to consolidate, the emerging markets desk was transferred to Angus Tulloch and his team in Edinburgh. Thornton then left along with Robert Brewis, who was the senior emerging markets portfolio manager at the time, to...

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