Martin Currie has changed the model of its investment team leadership with the firm's investment head John Pickard exiting as a result.
The new structure will see the heads of the respective strategies placed at the centre of the business, reporting to CEO Willie Watt, who will chair the investment executive committee. Watt will continue to have accountability for oversight and monitoring of investment processes and philosophy. He will be supported by investment process head Jeff Casson and head of investment risk, trading and quant Paul Hughes. The restructuring follows a string of hires the firm made which saw BlackRock's Zehrid Osmani appointed as head of the global long term unconstrained team and Old Mutual Gl...
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