11 February 2015

New Manager Takes Helm Of China-Focused Henderson Fund; Predecessor Departs

Published by WealthBriefingAsia – 11th February 2015

There is a new manager of the Horizon China Fund, a China-focused portfolio run by Henderson Global Investors.

Henderson Global Investors’ Charlie Awdry has assumed responsibility of the firm’s Horizon China Fund. Awdry, who has been with Henderson since its acquisition of Gartmore in 2011, takes over from Caroline Maurer. The firm said in a statement that Maurer has left “to pursue other opportunities”.

Awdry, who managed Chinese equity funds and mandates totalling $842.3 million in assets at the end of September last year, will report to Henderson’s head of Asia ex-Japan equities, Andrew Gillan. Under the transition, assets managed by the Asia ex-Japan team will increase to $3.2 billion. Awdry will continue to be based in London and will work with the Asia ex-Japan equities team in Singapore.

“Charlie has an impressive track record in managing Chinese equities and a proven ability to deliver performance for clients. His appointment will provide focus to our Chinese equities offering, as we continue to build our Asian equities hub in Singapore, including the hiring of more locally based China-focused analysts to work with Charlie on this fund,” Gillan said.

A member of Gartmore’s emerging markets team since 2001, Awdry has more than a decade’s experience of managing China equities, including China A-shares as part of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor programme. Awdry became an investment manager for Gartmore in 2003 and, following a period working in Hong Kong, assumed the London-based role of lead China fund manager in 2006.

 

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