Welcome to the Liontrust website for institutional investors. Liontrust has a long history of managing investments on behalf of institutions and their clients, members and policyholders. These include pension funds (both defined contribution and defined benefit schemes), insurance companies and local government authorities.

Liontrust’s investment capabilities have been demonstrated by the number of awards the company and our fund management teams have won in recent years. This includes winning UK Manager of the Year at the Financial News Asset Management Awards 2022.

Through this website, you can read about the processes and capabilities of our investment strategies for institutional investors. You can also find the latest thinking and insights of our investment teams, including the Sustainable Investment team’s Annual Review, and the Liontrust team that works with institutional investors.

Liontrust strategies for institutional investors

We work in partnership with institutional investors to have a positive impact on their members and policyholders, seeking to help them reach their financial objectives over the long term.

To achieve this, Liontrust focuses on those areas of investment in which we have particular expertise. We believe in the benefits of active fund management over the long term and all our fund managers are truly active. Liontrust has eight fund management teams investing in Equities (globally and regionally), Global Fixed Income, Sustainable Investment and Multi-Asset portfolios and funds.

Each of our investment teams applies distinct and rigorous investment processes to the management of funds and portfolios that ensure the way we manage assets on behalf of institutional clients is predictable and repeatable. Our fund managers are independent thinkers and have the courage of their convictions in making investment decisions.

Investment strategies

Cashflow Solution

James Inglis-Jones and Samantha Gleave jointly manage the Cashflow Solution equity strategies having first worked together in 1998. James previously managed funds at Fleming Investment Management, JP Morgan Fleming and Polar Capital. Samantha formerly worked at Sutherlands Limited, Fleming Investment Management, Credit Suisse First Boston and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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Economic Advantage

Anthony Cross joined Liontrust from Schroders in 1997 and launched the UK Smaller Companies Fund a year later. Anthony’s co-managers on the Economic Advantage range of UK equity funds are Julian Fosh (formerly Scottish Amicable Investment Managers, Britannic Investment Managers, Scottish Friendly Society and Saracen Fund Managers), Victoria Stevens (who joined from FinnCap), Matt Tonge (previously on the Liontrust dealing desk), Alex Wedge (who joined from N+1 Singer) and Natalie Bell (previously on the Liontrust Responsible Capitalism team).

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Global Fixed Income

Before joining Liontrust in early 2018, Phil Milburn worked at Kames Capital for 14 years, where he was Head of Investment Strategy. Donald Phillips also joined Liontrust in 2018 and was previously an investment manager in the Credit team at Baillie Gifford and worked with Phil at Kames Capital for three years. Sharmin Rahman joined Liontrust in August 2022 having previously worked at AXA Investment Managers where she had been a Senior Portfolio Manager and Analyst in the European High Yield team. Emma Veitch joined Liontrust in July 2022 having previously worked at Aegon Asset Management before taking a career break.

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Global Equities team

Mark Hawtin, David Goodman, Kevin Kruczynski and Pieran Maru joined Liontrust in April 2024 to form the Global Equities team. All four previously worked together at GAM Investments, where they were responsible for managing global long only and long/short funds investing in disruptive growth and technology. Mark was a partner and portfolio manager with Marshall Wace Asset Management for eight years, including managing one of Europe’s largest technology, media and telecoms hedge funds. Before joining GAM in 2009, David held senior positions at SEB, Marshall Wace, Instinet Alpha and Pali International. Kevin moved to GAM in 2016 from THS Partners and was previously at Cazenove Capital and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers while Pieran joined the team in 2017.

Global Fundamental

Headed by Imran Sattar, the Global Fundamental team has a strong track record of active management of equities for institutional, intermediaries and their clients since 2002. In 2020, the Global Fundamental team was appointed to manage the Edinburgh Investment Trust.

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Sustainable Investment

The team has been managing the Sustainable Future funds for more than 22 years. The team is headed by Peter Michaelis who has been managing the funds since launch. The fund managers all joined from Alliance Trust Investments (ATI) as part of its acquisition and were previously running the Sustainable Future fund range at Aviva Investors.

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Our awards

Professional Pensions Investment Awards Sustainable Corproate Bond Manager of the Year

Professional Pensions Investment Awards 2023 Sustainable Corporate Bond Manager of the Year

Professional Adviser Awards 2023 Best Responsible Fund

Investment Marketing Innovation Awards 2023 Best Website

Online Money Awards 2022 Best Investment Trust Group

Financial News Excellence in Institutional Fund Management Awards 2022 UK Manager of the Year

Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2022 Global Group of the Year

Professional Paraplanner Awards 2022 Best ESG Investment Solution Provider

Professional Paraplanner Awards 2022 Best Active Investment Solution Provider

Latest insights from our investment teams

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Our team for institutional investors

Frank Doyle

Head of Institutional Sales

Frank Doyle is Head of Institutional Sales at Liontrust and has 37 years of industry experience. He joined the company in 2018 have spent the previous 12 years building Investec Asset Management’s UK Institutional business. He started his career in 1985 as an investment consultant at Mercer and has held a number of senior positions in asset management companies including M&G, Dresdner RCM (now Allianz Group) and Citigroup. He has a BSc (Econ) from Cardiff University and is an Associate member of the CFA Society.

Email. frank.doyle@liontrust.co.uk
Direct Line. +44 (0)203 908 8735
Mobile. +44 (0)7823 530 270

James Mowat

Head of Investment Companies

James Mowat is Head of Investment Companies with 28 years of industry experience. James was a Client Director at Majedie Asset Management from 2016 prior to the Liontrust acquisition in April 2022. Before joining Majedie, James worked at Baillie Gifford for 14 years where he was a Client Director responsible for a broad range of institutional global equity clients. He also chaired the product group for the firm’s largest global equity strategy, leading its client relationship team from strategy launch in 2005. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Cazenove as an analyst and UK equity fund manager. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Email. james.mowat@liontrust.co.uk
Direct Line. +44 (0)203 908 8822

Jessica Ironside

Head of Institutional Client Services

Jessica Ironside is Head of Institutional Client Service and has 13 years of industry experience. Jessica was Head of Client Service at Majedie Asset Management from 2010 prior to the Liontrust acquisition in April 2022. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Property Surveying and Town Planning from the University of Aberdeen.

Email. jessica.ironside@liontrust.co.uk
Direct Line. +44 (0)203 908 8828