F&C appoints director of Japanese equities

Bain was part of the team running around £500m of Japanese equities for retail and pension funds at RLAM where he worked for six years. Now, having joined F&C’s Pacific equities desk, he will focus on benchmark plus institutional portfolios and contribute to stock selection on a range of the fund house’s high alpha products. Bain’s career in investment began at Barclays Stockbrokers where he managed private client funds. He left to study for a master’s degree in investment analysis at the University of Stirling before moving on to RLAM. Jamie Jenkins, head of Japanese equities at F&C, s...