Lyttleton gets co-manager on BlackRock UK fund

BlackRock's Nick Little is to join Mark Lyttleton in managing the company's £444m UK fund.

Little, who has managed Core UK equity portfolios for BlackRock institutional clients over the past seven years, has today become co-manager of the UK fund. BlackRock said the fund's investment philosophy will remain unchanged, and the appointment brings the fund in line with the dual manager structures seen on the £1.6bn UK Absolute Alpha fund, managed by Lyttleton and Nick Osborne, and the £749m UK Income fund managed by Nick McLeod-Clarke and Adam Avigdori. "Nick's promotion acknowledges his strong track record of managing UK equity mandates for institutional clients over the past ...