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Who’s Moving Where In Wealth Management? – Whitman Asset Management, ALFI, Others

Editorial Staff

16 July 2021

Whitman Asset Management
has hired Ashish Kochar as a fund manger. He will arrive in September and will be based in London.

Kochar, who will be joining the global equity team, will become portfolio manager of the Fidelity Funds – Global Focus (Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV), alongside co-portfolio manager Oliver Trimingham.

Prior to this, Kochar worked at Columbia Threadneedle. He has more than 16 years’ investment experience of managing US, global and absolute return products. Before his 13 plus years at Columbia Threadneedle, he worked at hedge-fund manager, North Sound Capital, and Merrill Lynch. Kochar holds an MBA from Mason School of Business.