Former Allianz Global Investors head of UK wholesale Matthew Couzens (pictured) has joined Artemis as sales director for London.
He spent nine years at Allianz and has previously held sales roles at Canada Life Investments and Russell Investments.
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Artemis has also appointed Joe Wallace and Freddie Morrissey as sales support executives, who join from Janus Henderson and Muzinich, respectively. All three will be based in Artemis’s London office.
Couzens said: “[Artemis] has a very strong range of distinctive, actively managed funds in core areas for many clients.
“Concentration risk is a key concern of many investors, so we’re seeing a trend of mitigating that risk with active strategies that have proven themselves through various market cycles.”