Man Group hires BlackRock manager to launch multi-asset strategy

Working with Ben Funnell

Man Group has hired BlackRock's Teun Draaisma as portfolio manager to launch a multi-asset strategy.

The strategy will be a part of Man Solutions, the firm's central platform designed to run tailored investment programmes. Draaisma will be responsible for the management of this strategy along with Ben Funnell, head of the Man Dynamic Alpha team, who he worked with at Morgan Stanley for nine years to 2006. He joins from BlackRock, where he spent six years as a global equity strategist, with a focus on portfolio management and asset allocation. Prior to this, he was a portfolio manager at TT International. and was a European equity strategist at Morgan Stanley for 13 years between 1...