Sanlam hires new global equity income team run by Martin Currie's Whitehead

New fund to be launched at end of year

Sanlam will employ a new global equity income team by the end of the year, to be headed up by Martin Currie's head of income Mark Whitehead.

Whitehead, alongside co-manager of Martin Currie's Global Equity income fund Alan Porter and investment analyst Laurie Lochtie, will oversee a new global equity income fund, which will be seeded with £200m of existing assets. They will join alongside Sanlam's existing Global High Quality team, which is run by Pieter Fourie. The hires come as part of a long-term strategy to bolster the firm's expertise in global equities. Loefstrand and Oyegunle to take on T. Rowe Price Frontier and MEA funds as Bell promoted Tom Carroll, head of asset management at Sanlam, said: "The appointment of...