Blackrock brings in abrdn investment director in UK equity teams reshuffle

Samantha Browlee joins

Blackrock has repositioned the portfolio management of some of its UK equity portfolios and poached Samantha Brownlee from abrdn to co-manage three strategies.

Brownlee has joined the UK core equity team as a director, having previously spent the past 14 years at abrdn within its European, US and UK equity teams.  Working alongside Luke Chappell, she will immediately be appointed as co-manager across the UK Focus and UK +2% strategies and on the BGF United Kingdom fund.  BlackRock to launch two new PE funds after ELTIFs raise almost €1bn She will replace Nick Little, who is stepping down from his portfolio management responsibilities and will be exploring opportunities inside and outside the firm.  In addition, the portfolio management...