Morley Fund Management, one of the UK’s largest fund managers, has made two new appointments to its marketing team.
Morley Fund Management, one of the UK’s largest fund managers, has made two new appointments to its marketing team. Nicolas Portet has been appointed European marketing manager and Helen Pring has been appointed competitor and customer insight manager. Both Nicolas and Helen will report to Morley’s head of channel marketing, Mark Ward.
Commenting on the appointments, Morley’s head of marketing David Norman said: “Morley is committed to growing its business beyond the UK, especially in Europe. The addition of Nicolas and Helen to our marketing team reinforces the support we give to the business.
“Nicolas will be working collaboratively with the business development and sales teams. His main responsibility will be to provide proactive marketing support to the European business and the wider channel marketing team by presenting ideas and plans for investment and product stories and campaigns.
“Helen will be providing the sales, product development and distribution strategy teams with robust and insightful data and trend analyses to use as part of their decision making process. She will be facilitating strategic and tactical plans and activities, covering wholesale, European and institutional businesses”, he said.
Nicolas Portet joined Morley from American Express Bank where he was director of global marketing. His main responsibilities included developing strategic marketing plans, undertaking qualitative and quantitative surveys and promoting global events. Before this, Nicolas was Senior Marketing Associate at Fidelity Investments in Luxembourg.
Helen Pringjoined Morley from Pioneer Investments where she was market research manager. In her role, Helen managed a team of four analysts between Dublin and London who created a range of reports from quantitative monthly updates on performance, sales, ratings and fees to analytical market-entry and product development strategy documents. Before joining Pioneer Investments, Helen worked at Societe Generale Investment Bank in the Financial Institutions Group.
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For more information contact:
Beth Saint
Corporate Communications
Telephone: 020 7809 8125
Notes to editors:
Morley Fund Management
Morley Fund Management Limited is the UK-based asset management business of Aviva plc. Firms within the Morley group of companies manage Ł162bn from offices around the world as at 30 Septmber 2006.
Morley manages both institutional and retail funds under the Morley brand. It also acts as investment manager for a range of retail investment funds, marketed in the UK under the Norwich Union brand, and international funds marketed under the Aviva Funds brand.
Awards
- Equity End User of the Year – Derivatives Week DEAL Awards 2006
- Property Fund Manager of the Year, Pensions Management Awards 2006
- Best Commitment to Raising Standards of Trustee Education, Engaged Investor Awards 2006
- Property Fund Manager of the Year, Property Week Awards 2006
- SRI Provider of the Year, Global Pensions 2006
- Central European Property Awards 2005 - Outstanding Company of the Year & Investor of the Year
- UK Pensions Awards 2005 – Property Manager of the Year
- Property Week Awards 2004 – Best Property Fund Manager
- Pensions Management Provider Awards 2003 – Best Property Fund Manager.
Further information about Morley Fund Management can be found at www.morleyfm.com