The £376m BlackRock Frontiers investment trust has appointed Sudaif Niaz to join Sam Vecht and Emily Fletcher as portfolio manager of the company, with immediate effect.
In a London Stock Exchange announcement yesterday evening (28 February), the company said there are no alterations anticipated in the way the portfolio is managed on a day-to-day basis as a result of this change. Niaz joined the firm in 2015, first as a research analyst in the global emerging markets equities team within BlackRock's fundamental equity group, and then as portfolio manager, following a promotion in October 2021, based in London. Revealed: BlackRock's three major themes He is a member of the EMEA and frontier markets research team and specialises in the Middle-East, ...
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