In May,
Beutel Goodman announced the appointment of Ryan Fitzgerald, CFA, to the position of Vice President, US and International Equity. He joined Beutel Goodman with more than 20 years of experience at CI Investments, where he rose through the ranks, particularly in analyst and portfolio management positions.
In May,
CI Investment Inc. announced the appointment of Bradley Hicks to the position of Senior Vice President, Head of CI Institutional Asset Management. Mr. Hicks has 20 years of experience in the institutional asset management business with Canadian and global firms.
In June,
Fiera Capital informed us that
François Bourdon, who most recently served as Global Chief Investment Officer, announced his decision to leave Fiera Capital at the end of June.
François's responsibilities within Fiera Capital's asset allocation team and across a number of alternative vehicles were assumed by other members of those teams.
In June,
MFS informed us that effective September 30, 2021, the MFS Core Equity strategy will be managed by Ted Maloney and Alison O'Neil, who have served on the portfolio management team since 2012 and 2018, respectively. Furthermore, Kevin Beatty, a member of the portfolio management team since 2004, will retire from MFS, relinquishing his portfolio management duties on strategy and his role as Co-Chief Investment Officer (Co-CIO) of Equity for the Americas.
On July 6,
Mawer Investment Management Ltd. announced that effective January 1, 2021, Jim Hall, CFA, Chair, will step down as co-manager of the Mawer Canadian Equity and Mawer Global Equity strategies to focus full-time on his role as Chair and on the investment risk management process. Meanwhile, Paul Moroz,
CFA,
CIO, will stay on as lead manager of the Global Equity strategy. Vijay Viswanathan,
CFA, Director of Research, will remain lead manager of the Canadian Equity strategy.