Invesco Perpetual hands global fund to Anness

Invesco Perpetual has handed top-performing UK manager Stephen Anness its Global Opportunities fund as part of a reshuffle of its equities division.

The group said Anness (pictured), who has delivered top quartile returns for investors in the £123m UK Aggressive portfolio, will take over the £53m Global Opportunities fund in the new year, when he will also join its global equities team. His Aggressive fund will be handed to colleague Martin Walker, who runs the group's £820m UK Growth fund. Anness, who has achieved a return of 26.3% for investors in the Aggressive fund over the past year, well ahead of the average UK All Companies fund return of 18.8%, will have an unconstrained global mandate on his new fund. Nick Hamilton, he...