Harry Green
MFS Investment Management has announced the appointment of Harry Green as Relationship Director, Institutional Sales for Australia.
Harry will assume the sales and client responsibilities formerly managed by Josh Barton, who became the Head for Australia and New Zealand, effective 1 September 2023.
He will be responsible for developing opportunities to promote MFS’ broad range of fixed income and equity capabilities to major institutional investors in Australia, contributing to the firm’s overall growth in the region.
With over 10 years industry experience, Harry joins from Frontier Advisors, where he served as a Principal Consultant based in Melbourne. Before that he was based in London and spent four years with Lane Clark & Peacock working as a Senior Investment Consultant. Additionally, he held an Investment Analyst role at Willis Towers Watson and was a Financial Planning Adviser with Fisher Investments.
Based in MFS’ Melbourne office, he will report to Josh Barton, and will work closely with him and the wider Australian sales and relationship management team.
Commenting on Harry’s appointment, Josh said, ‘Harry’s extensive knowledge and wealth of experience will be invaluable as we continue to promote our capabilities to institutional clients and consultants in Australia. This is an important hire for us, and I believe he will offer a fresh perspective on our institutional offering to ensure we are meeting the ever-changing needs of our clients’.
‘The team is focused on consolidating on our strong current position with our global equity range, while diversifying into other strategies, such as fixed income which is coming back as an asset class after years of being out of favour with many investors. We are also seeing interest in some of our lesser-known strategies such as contrarian value and global REITs’, he added.
Harry said, ‘I am pleased to join MFS, and I look forward to collaborating with Josh and the team to ensure that we meet our growth ambitions for the region’.
MFS has a long track record of working with clients in Australia and New Zealand and services approximately AUD$29.1 billion of assets across the region as at 31 October 2023. The firm’s assets under management for the same period stand at AUD$829.32 billion.