20 July 2010
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has strengthened its UK Equities team with the appointment of Jeremy Charles as Investment Director.
Based in SWIP’s Edinburgh office, Jeremy joins the company on Tuesday 20 July and will report to Peter Cockburn, Head of UK Equities. He will be involved in the management of SWIP’s core UK institutional and retail funds and will help to drive forward the equity business strategy.
Jeremy brings more than 23 years of experience in asset management to the role and joins from Aviva UK Life where he was a senior portfolio manager. Prior to this he worked for Shell Pensions, Shell Trust Bermuda Ltd and Canada Life.
Peter Cockburn, Head of UK Equities, comments:
“Jeremy brings both a wealth of investment experience and a high calibre track record of combining fundamental analysis with portfolio construction. He is a valuable addition to the UK equities team at SWIP which has more £24 billion invested in UK equities and is a market leading investor. Jeremy’s appointment will strengthen further our UK equity capability and help to evolve our investment process and product offering.”
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Notes to Editors Scottish Widows Investment Partnership
- SWIP’s ultimate parent is Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest financial services groups in the UK.
- SWIP has a geographically diverse client base with alliances, joint ventures and clients in the UK, across Europe, USA and Japan.
- SWIP is one of the UK and Europe’s largest fund managers with £148bn funds under management (Source: Internal, as at 31 March 2010).
- SWIP has a broad client base, managing assets for Pension Funds, Charities, Local Authorities, Life Funds, Unit Trusts, OEICs, Off-Shore Funds and Specialist Funds across all asset classes.
- SWIP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is entered on their register under number 193707 (www.fsa.gov.uk).
- Investment markets and conditions can change rapidly and as such the views expressed should not be taken as statements of fact nor should reliance be placed on these views when making investment decisions. Past performance is not a guide to the future.
