Angwin will work as part of the Sydney-based distribution team, and will focus on retail asset consultants, family offices, private wealth clients and independent financial advisers (IFAs).

Angwin has extensive intermediary and institutional experience and a career in financial services that spans over 18 years. Prior to joining GSFM, he worked as a director at BMO Global Asset Management for eight years where was responsible for building out the company’s intermediary channel. Prior to this he spent three-and-a-half years at AQR Capital Management where he was responsible for establishing its intermediary channel as AQR became a leader in alternative investment solutions. Angwin has also worked as head of distribution at van Eyk. He started his career as a business analyst at Commonwealth Bank.

GSFM CEO, Damien McIntyre, says this latest appointment – the second to the distribution team in Sydney in the past two months – is the result of GSFM’s strong business growth.

“Michael has an impressive track record in business development, and an extensive network that will serve him well in this new role.

“As demand for GSFM’s funds continues to grow, Michael is a welcome addition to the team,” says McIntyre.

Stephen Fletcher, head of retail distribution at GSFM, says Angwin has many years’ experience working in the retail and wholesale intermediary market.

“His relationships and proven ability in servicing the needs of clients will be of great value,” says Fletcher.

“Retail asset consultants, family offices and private wealth clients are important markets for GSFM, and Michael’s background and expertise in targeting this segment make him ideally suited to the position.

“He is well placed to play a key role further developing and executing the strategies of the wholesale distribution team” says Fletcher.

Angwin holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Management from Western Sydney University. He also completed a certified investment management (CIMA) certification at the Wharton School and at Investments and Wealth Institute, and a company directors course, GAICA at the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Angwin’s appointment follows the recent appointment of Andrew Koolman to key account manager for the Sydney distribution team.

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Thomas Vester

LGM Investments, BMO Global Asset Management’s specialist emerging markets manager, yesterday announced that the BMO LGM Global Emerging Markets Fund has been added to one of Australia’s leading investment platforms, HUB24. The fund has been added to HUB24’s IDPS and Superannuation menus.

“Investor demand for quality emerging market asset managers is growing,” said Michael Angwin, Intermediary Business Director Australia, BMO Global Asset Management. “We are excited to have BMO LGM Global Emerging Markets Fund available on the menus of HUB24.”

Launched in 2015, the fund invests in cash-generating emerging market companies utilising an active, bottom-up, long-term, unconstrained style. The fund was recently awarded its first rating of four stars by SQM Research recognising its “strong investment philosophy that rigorously defines quality appropriately across the emerging and frontier market stock universe”.

Taking a broader approach to emerging market investing, LGM Investments has a concentrated stock-picking strategy that is differentiated from competitors with an emphasis on dominant consumer, financial or services companies in the less developed parts of the emerging market universe, such as India, Indonesia, Egypt and Vietnam.

Thomas Vester, Chief Investment Officer of LGM Investments, commented, “This fund offers the Australian market an alternative option in the emerging markets space, providing a focused exposure to the domestic opportunity in these markets.”

Vester added, “We make all our decisions at a stock level and invest where we see the greatest opportunity, not necessarily where an index would lead us. The best way to grow our clients’ capital is to compound it at a high rate over many years. To achieve this, we only look for great businesses characterised by having sustainable business models, strong management teams and unleveraged balance sheets with owners who respect that minority shareholders need to have their fair share of the cash flows.”

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