MoneyAM Fund Centre

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Fund Objective

To provide long-term (over five or more years) growth through investment in Asian (excluding Japan) equities and equity-related securities.

Fund Managers

Paul Danes

Paul is the co-manager of our Asia portfolios, including the Martin Currie Asia Pacific and Asia Long-Term Unconstrained strategies. He joined Martin Currie in 2007, initially working with our Japan team before joining the Asia team in 2011. In 2012, Paul moved to Singapore to head up our Asian business, where, in addition to his portfolio-management duties, he conducts local research for Asian markets. Before joining Martin Currie, Paul held portfolio-management roles with Nordea Investment Funds in Luxembourg and Deutsche Asset Management in London and Tokyo. He has a degree in economics from the University of Cambridge.

Andrew Graham

Andrew joined Martin Currie in May 2010 and heads our Asia team. He is co-manager of the Martin Currie Asia Pacific and Asia Long-Term Unconstrained strategies alongside the Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained Trust. He joined us from Sofaer Global Research, bringing with him over 20 years’ experience of managing Asia-Pacific equities. At Sofaer, where he was a partner, Andrew managed the company’s Japan absolute return fund and co-managed its Pacific-region absolute return fund. Prior to this he spent five years as senior vice president at Putnam Investments, where he co-managed its International Capital Opportunities Fund, focusing particularly on the Asia-Pacific region. Earlier in his career Andrew held portfolio management roles at both Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and Kemper Investment Management. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Economics from the University of Strathclyde.

Damian Taylor

Damian is a portfolio manager in our Asia team and is also co-manager of LMIF Asia Unconstrained Fund alongside Andrew Graham and Paul Danes. Before joining Martin Currie in July 2013, he was the chief financial officer for the digital media agency Rocketer. Prior to that, Damian was Investment Director at the private equity business Boundary Capital. He began his investment career at Goldman Sachs, before moving to Morgan Stanley as Executive Director, Institutional Sales. Damian is a CFA® charterholder and gained his MBA at INSEAD in 1999. He also has a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne.