UK's Fundsmith Boosts Equity Team

Stephen Little

14 March 2014

London-headquartered has appointed Sandip Patodia as an equity research analyst, alongside Michael O’Brien, Jonathan Imlah and Tom Boles, who joined in 2013.

The new equity research team will work for the Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust, which is set to be launched later this year, the firm said in a statement.

FEET will invest in companies that have the same characteristics as the Fundsmith Equity fund but are mostly headquartered and listed in emerging markets, Fundsmith said.

Patodia joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was a vice-president within the UK investment bank from 2009 to 2013, providing corporate finance advice to UK-listed companies.

O’Brien was previously at Canaccord Genuity, where he spent more than a decade as an analyst covering a wide range of sectors and geographies. He began his career at Guinness Flight Global Asset Management (subsequently Investec Asset Management) in 1994 as an analyst before taking responsibility for the group’s UK small and emerging companies funds in 1997.

Imlah also joined from Canaccord Genuity, where he was a senior technology analyst. He was previously at Altium Securities where he covered technology for six years, before becoming head of research. Prior to Altium, he worked at Dresdner Kleinwort covering emerging markets equity research and subsequently pan-European IT services in the large cap technology team.

Boles joined the firm after completing an MSc in Economics and Finance from the University of Bristol.