BMO GAM expands product range to 'regain reputation' in EMs

Working with emerging market specialist LGM

BMO Global Asset Management is looking to expand its emerging markets offering for UK clients to leverage the link with LGM Investments, an EM specialist owned by parent firm Bank of Montreal.

The group has already merged its existing emerging markets team with LGM's, and the management of the former F&C emerging markets funds has transitioned to Rasmus Nemmo and Irina Hunter, senior portfolio managers at LGM. This move also means BMO GAM can offer LGM's five EM funds to its UK clients, particularly as LGM already has some offerings structured for the domestic market. Rob Thorpe (pictured), head of UK wholesale and retail sales at BMO GAM, said: "We are regaining our reputation in emerging markets.  It is where the firm first started with the Foreign & Colonial investment t...