Neptune hires JPMAM veteran Parsons as UK sales head Lee departs

Spent one year at Neptune

Neptune Investment Management's head of UK sales Daniel Lee has left the firm after just one year, Investment Week understands, as former J.P. Morgan Asset Management veteran Mike Parsons joins as head of global sales.

Lee joined in June 2017 having previously worked at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, where he spent two years as head of UK wholesale before the group decided to retreat from the UK retail market. He also held sales roles at a number of firms including Allianz Global Investors, Cazenove Capital Management and Old Mutual Asset Managers. Parsons spent a decade at JPMAM, most recently as head of sales, where he led the firm's UK intermediary sales team. Prior to this, he was head of retail sales at Schroders between 2000 and 2006 and sales manager at Fidelity Investments for fiv...