Ewan Markson-Brown: Why moving to CRUX will take my strategy to next level

Already making his mark

Lauren Mason
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Moving from running the £3.2bn Baillie Gifford Pacific strategy to CRUX will “take the fund to the next level”, according to its manager Ewan Markson-Brown, who joined the firm last week and will run two new Asian equity UCITS vehicles.

Markson-Brown, who had been at the helm of the fund alongside Roderick Snell (who remains at the firm) since 2013, explained at a small media event last week (14 September) that he had "been thinking for a long time about where my next move would be".  Markson-Brown joined by former analyst colleagues at CRUX Asset Management "I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and the wish to create a winning product, a winning strategy and my own brand," he said. "I have done this to an extent over the past 20 years of my career. Baillie Gifford helped me to build a fantastic strategy a...

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