Former RLAM manager appointed to Artemis Alpha board in diversity push

Joins as independent non-executive director

Former Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) portfolio manager Victoria Stewart has been appointed as an independent non-executive director on the Artemis Alpha trust.

Stewart, who joins officially on 31 May, brings 22 years of fund management experience, most recently as the sole and founding manager of the Royal London UK Smaller Companies. Artemis Alpha trust board proposes raft of changes; Dodd's co-manager Paterson to retire She left the role in 2016 to take up a non-executive director role with Secure Trust Bank, where she is now also chairman of the remuneration committee. In August, the Artemis Alpha's board said in its annual financial report that its director selection policy going forward "will, first and foremost, seek to identify the...