Neptune's Cassell joins UK government for Brexit role in two-year sabbatical

Deputy manager on the UK Mid Cap fund

Neptune Investment Management's Holly Cassell is to take a two-year break from her role as deputy manager on the £600m UK Mid Cap fund, to take up a strategic advisory role within the UK government working on its Brexit plans.

Cassell (pictured) has accepted a two-year fixed contract from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to take up an industrial strategy advisory role. She will return to her role as deputy manager to Mark Martin on the £600m UK Mid Cap fund and as co-manager on the £19m UK Opportunities fund after the contract has ended. The UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016 and negotiations with the EU have only just begun. It is not expected that the UK will have completed its split from the EU until at least 2019. Neptune hires former M&G CEO McLintock Rob...