MFS Investment Management bolsters Australian institutional sales team

MFS Investment Management has announced the appointment of Negin Khamsi as Relationship Director, Institutional Sales for Australia.

Negin brings 15 years of industry experience in investment management client relations and business development. She joins MFS from Capital Group where she was Director, Financial Intermediaries, having held senior business development and client relations roles over nine years with the firm. Before that, she worked at Deutsche Bank, where she played a key role in building its dbSelect platform across Asia. 

Based in Sydney, Negin will be responsible for fostering awareness of MFS’ broad range of fixed income and equity solutions and promoting the adoption of those solutions by institutional investors. She will work alongside Harry Green, who joined MFS in November from Frontier Advisers as a Relationship Director.

While consolidating MFS’ strong equity market position, Harry and Negin will collaborate with local and global relationship management teams, focusing on the firm’s suite of fixed income strategies, lesser-known contrarian value and global REITs, and listed infrastructure strategies. Both will report to Josh Barton, Managing Director and Head Of Australia And New Zealand. 

Commenting on Negin’s appointment, Josh said, ‘Negin’s exceptional experience, and her passion for understanding and anticipating client needs, is well aligned with MFS’ client-centric approach and complements our dedicated and diverse team of relationship managers. We’re delighted to have her join us.

‘Australia’s investment sector is delivering robust capital returns that are durable, risk-managed and aligned with desired outcomes and values. This is a complex and challenging task that requires partners who share and demonstrate a sense of stewardship.’

Commenting on her appointment, Negin said, ‘MFS is globally renowned for its deep and long-term relationships with investors. I’m excited to be part of a great team dedicated to supporting Australia’s world-leading institutional investment community.’

MFS has a long track record of working with clients in Australia and New Zealand and services approximately AU$29 billion of client assets. It has AU$919.7 billion of global assets under management as of 31 January 2024.