AXA Rosenberg Investment Management Limited, an AXA Investment Managers company specialising in quantitative active global equity asset management, announced that Robert Hegt has joined as Europe head of sales and marketing. Hegt joins AXA Rosenberg with a wealth of experience in the institutional and fund distribution areas in Europe and the Middle East.
The Europe sales and marketing role was previously held by Simon Vanstone, who assumed responsibility for global sales and consultant relationships towards the end of last year, in addition to his role as Europe chief executive officer. Hegt will report to Vanstone.
I am delighted to have Robert join us. His experience and professionalism will be invaluable as we continue to build our business in Europe and the Middle East, says Vanstone. Besides our core long only product offering, we have recently introduced both more aggressive and defensive equity strategies to our product range, to cater for the specific needs of equity investors, institutional or otherwise. Roberts appointment reinforces our commitment to the marketplaces we serve from London.
Hegt has nearly 20 years experience, which includes time spent in senior sales and business development roles at Wellington Management and Schroders. Before this Hegt was a portfolio manager and investment analyst at HSBC Asset Management and MeesPierson Capital Management.
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