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LOIM bolsters UK Wholesale team with senior hire
George Guest joins in London to reinforce firm’s strategic growth in UK
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (“LOIM”) today announces the appointment of George Guest as Sales Director in the UK Wholesale team, as part of the firm’s commitment to bolster its presence in the UK market and bring its market-leading sustainability and thematic product offering to a wider UK audience.
In his new role, George will be responsible for promoting the breadth of LOIM’s investment proposition to UK discretionary clients including private banks and wealth managers. George is based in London and reports to Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale. He joined LOIM on 30 August.
George has more than 10 years of asset management experience. He joins LOIM from Impax Asset Management, where he gained in-depth knowledge of the sustainable investment industry. Prior to that, he worked at Aberdeen Standard Investments. George’s experience in sustainable investing will complement the firm’s proposition, particularly its sustainable thematic range of science-based and forward-looking strategies, including Natural Capital, Climate Transition and the recently launched New Food Systems strategy.
Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale at LOIM, commented: “We are delighted that George has chosen to join LOIM, to reinforce our strategic growth in the UK market. George’s experience and expertise in sustainable investing will be instrumental to our UK wholesale clients, as LOIM seeks to capture market opportunities from the environmental transition and provide investors with compelling sustainability-linked returns.”
About Lombard Odier IM
At Lombard Odier Investment Managers, we are rethinkers with one goal in mind. To provide our clients with outstanding investment solutions that meet their needs for the long term and evolve to thrive in the challenging world in which we all live.
We are focused investment specialists, seeking out investment opportunities that lie on less trodden paths, where our diverse and talented team can add genuine, persistent, value to our clients. We constantly rethink what we know and do, innovating to create new strategies and develop new ways of investing.
We believe that the next economic revolution has already begun and that sustainability will be a major driver of returns for the foreseeable future and beyond. For those with the skills to adapt to this new reality, sustainability will create new sources of alpha, open up new investment opportunities and lead to enhanced return and reduced portfolio risk.
Our team of sustainability experts combine sophisticated data sources, academic rigour and technical innovation to create leading-edge, science-based tools that provide unique insights that are available to all our investment professionals.
These unique insights are reflected directly in our growing range of dedicated sustainable investment strategies that are aligned to this core belief - That our economic model must move from being Wasteful, Idle, Lopsided and Dirty to become Circular, Lean, Inclusive and Clean. We call this The CLIC® Economy.
With more than 180 investment professionals, we are a global business with a network of 13 offices across Europe, Asia and North America and have assets under management of 63 billion CHF (as at 30 July 2022).
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Sources of the figures:
EPA (2020) Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
FAO (2021) COP26: Agricultural expansion drives almost 90 percent of global deforestation
Semenchuk et al. (2022) Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity
UNEP (2021) UN calls on countries to meet commitments to restore one billion hectares of land
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2022) The Global Potential for Land Restoration
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