Janus Henderson poaches Mercer's Dean Cheeseman for multi-asset team

Chris Forgan departs

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Lead portfolio manager at Mercer Dean Cheeseman has left the firm to join Janus Henderson Global Investors' multi-asset team as a fund manager.

His appointment coincides with the departure of fund manager Chris Forgan, who will leave Janus Henderson in August after nearly 12 years in the multi-asset team. Cheeseman, who will report to Janus's head of multi-asset Paul O'Connor (pictured), was responsible for $5.8bn (£4.5bn) of Mercer's active institutional strategies. Henderson de-lists from LSE as merger with Janus set to complete Prior to Mercer, Cheeseman was head of fund of funds at F&C Asset Management, where he moved in 2007 after more than six years as head of developed markets at Forsyth Asset Management. O'Conno...

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