AXA IM hires ex-BlackRock manager to UK equities team

Joins on 17 September

Tom Eckett
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AXA Investment Managers has expanded its UK equities team with the appointment of ex-BlackRock and Aviva fund manager Simon Young.

Joining on 17 September, Young will take control of the £85m AXA Framlington Blue Chip Equity Income fund while also helping with the team's UK research. The group said this will enable current manager of the fund Jamie Forbes-Wilson to focus on its AXA Distribution funds, which he has been running since February 2016. Young joins from Heartwood Partners, an investor relations consultancy. Prior to that he was a fund manager at Aviva Investors for two years, where he managed the firm's UK Equity fund and the RBS Growth fund. He started his career at BlackRock Fund Management in 199...

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