Update: AXA IM hands UK small-cap fund to Harlow after Lowson exits

11 years at company

Henry Lowson, manager of the £274m AXA Framlington UK Smaller Companies fund, has left the company leading to the re-appointment of Dan Harlow as manager.

Lowson (pictured), who was included among Investment Week's top managers under 35 in November last year, joined AXA Investment Managers as a UK equity analyst and trainee fund manager in January 2005. He took over a manager of the AXA Framlington UK Smaller Companies fund in May 2012 but left the group last week, Investment Week understands. AXA IM expands European equities team with new hire   In a statement, AXA IM said Harlow has been re-appointed as lead manager of the fund after initially being recruited as manager in 2010. In 2011, he moved across to run the AXA Framlin...