Mr Green’s appointment deepens Greencape’s expertise and grows its investment team to six, while maintaining its close knit investment culture, which has delivered outperformance year-on-year since its 2006 inception.

Greencape Portfolio Manager David Pace said: “We believe Ryan is very well-aligned to Greencape’s high performance culture and fundamental research-driven investment philosophy.”

Mr Green brings over six years’ Australian equities investment analysis and funds management experience.  Most recently he spent three years as Research Analyst within the Australian equities team at Cooper Investors. He also worked at Goldman Sachs JB Were for three years as an Associate Director within the investment banking division. In this role Mr Green advised Australian and global resource companies on capital raisings, M&A and other strategic transactions.

“We look forward to seeing Ryan make a significant contribution to the team and client portfolios, via his proven investment analysis expertise,” Mr Pace added.

Greencape is a specialist, active manager of Australian equity portfolios, focused on identifying investment opportunity through detailed, hands-on, fundamental research.

Greencape offer two funds; the Greencape High Conviction Fund – providing investors the opportunity to invest in a highly concentrated portfolio of between 15 and 40 stocks and the Greencape Broadcap Fund, providing investors with selective small cap exposure alongside larger cap stocks.

Since the inception of both funds on 1 September 2006, the Greencape High Conviction Fund has delivered 9.8% p.a. to 30 June 2014, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index by 4.37% p.a. (net of fees). The Greencape Broadcap Fund has delivered 9.64% p.a. to 30 June 2014, also outperforming its benchmark, the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index, by 4.38% p.a. (net of fees).

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With over seven years’ experience in Australian equities and corporate accounting, Koh was most recently Vice-President, Equity Analyst, with BlackRock’s Fundamental Asian equity team. At BlackRock he was responsible for stock picking across the Australian market, focusing on stocks within the resources, energy, transport, infrastructure and A-REITs space.

Prior to joining BlackRock Koh served a brief stint with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Corporate Finance & Recovery division as an executive across business recovery, forensic accounting and transaction services. Koh holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Information Systems both from The University of Melbourne.

Greencape, has $3.97bn in funds under management* and is lead by experienced investors Matthew Ryland and David Pace both ex Merrill Lynch/Black Rock.

Portfolio Manager Matthew Ryland said: “Having previously worked with Jonathan at BlackRock we have great respect for his abilities and believe he will make a strong contribution to managing Greencape’s portfolio,” Mr Ryland said.

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