Invesco has reported today that it plans to enhance its investment capabilities across people and product by announcing that the UK Equities and European Equities teams will be brought together to create one UK & European Equity team, effective 1 January 2025. Martin Walker and Oliver Collin will be appointed as co-heads of UK & European Equities, reporting to John Surplice. Combined, the Invesco UK & European Equity team will manage over £15bn in assets1.
John Surplice, Head of EMEA Equities says: The two teams have always worked closely and share many investment resources to leverage their combined intellectual property at both the fund management and analyst level. We are simply formalising this collaborative approach further. This change will enhance the team’s close working relationship, foster greater collaboration and ensure we are leveraging on shared knowledge and analysis to continue to deliver the best opportunities for clients in the UK and Europe more broadly.
Stephanie Butcher, SMD & Co-Head of Investments says: “I am excited about this decision. We continuously look at ways to enhance our productivity and collaboration across investment teams, to deliver the best results for our clients.
“This change has been driven by the investment teams in recognition of the opportunity and value in leveraging a larger team across the strategies, and to meet the demands of the UK and European equity markets. Combining the teams will enable us to further capitalise on their existing strengths, continue to foster a world class pan-European equity capability and adapt to changing market and client conditions.
We will continue to focus on the UK market, with absolute commitment to our clients in our standalone UK Equity products.
We have a strong track record in successfully combining teams, for the benefit of our clients and our staff, as demonstrated by the merger of our UK based Asian & Emerging Market Equities team in 2018, as well as in other regions.
We are very proud of the strong commitment and collaboration that exists across our teams to continue to deliver the most effective results for our clients.”
1 Data as at 31 March 2024 and sourced by Invesco
