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.

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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.

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