South Africa head-quartered Investec Asset Management has bolstered its Africa team with the appointment of Julien Veron as research analyst. Mr Veron joins from Credit Suisse, where he spent ten years as a sell-side analyst covering a range of sectors from healthcare to food. Before that, he spent four years as a credit analyst at Nedbank.

IAM’s assets deployed on behalf of clients in African markets excluding South Africa exceed $1.5 billion.