Polar Capital appoints emerging markets and Asia fund manager

Jasper Wright joins

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Polar Capital has hired Jasper Wright as a fund manager to the firm’s Emerging Markets and Asia team.

Joining on 1 June, Wright will be working under Jorry Nøddekær, lead manager of the Polar Capital Emerging Markets Stars fund. Liontrust hires fund manager to multi-asset team Wright will join the firm from Federated Hermes where he spent six years, most recently as an associate director in its global emerging markets equity team. Prior to this, he worked as an analysts on Aberdeen Asset Management's emerging market equities team. Polar has also began an engagement with Aatman Ajmera as an independent research consultant, to provide investment research and advisory services ...

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