Blue Whale co-manager Lloyd departs for senior role at Crake AM

Stephen Yiu lead on the fund

Robert Lloyd, co-manager of the Blue Whale Growth fund with Stephen Yiu, has left his role to join Crake Asset Management.

Lloyd left his role as fund manager at Blue Whale Capital earlier in the year to join Crake Asset Management as partner. He spent two years at Blue Whale, and was also previously an equity analyst at Nevsky Capital and an M&A analyst at Fenchurch Advisory Partners, according to his LinkedIn profile. Yiu launched Blue Whale with the backing of Peter Hargreaves in 2017, having previously worked at Hargreaves Lansdown between 2002 and 2007.  He went on to co-run the Artemis UK Growth fund (now Artemis UK Select) alognside Tim Steer, and has also worked at New Star (now Janus Henderson...