Jupiter has promoted a number of people in its investment team, adding fund management resource to some of its UK small- and mid-cap, European equities, global bonds and emerging market debt strategies. 
David Cameron-Mowat has been made manager of the £361m Jupiter UK Smaller Companies Focus fund. He Jupiter in 2020 following the acquisition of Merian Global Investors, where he had been a member of the UK SMID team for over six years.
He had been deputy on both the Jupiter UK Smaller Companies and Jupiter UK Smaller Companies Focus funds.
Performance of Jupiter UK Smaller Companies vs sector and index over 5yrs
Source: FE Analytics
His promotion to manager of Jupiter UK Smaller Companies Focus is part of “a planned team progression” that will see previous manager Nick Williamson concentrate exclusively on the management of the Chrysalis Investments trust.
In other promotions, Sohil Chotai –an assistant fund manager in the European Growth team – will become co-manager of the Jupiter European Special Situations fund alongside Mark Nichols, while continuing to work across Jupiter’s full range of European equities funds.
Chotai joined Jupiter from Columbia Threadneedle where he was an analyst and deputy fund manager under Nichols and Mark Heslop. They all joined Jupiter in 2019.
Hilary Blandy has been promoted to fund manager of the Jupiter Monthly Income Bond fund, which she has been co-managing since September 2020.
Blandy, who has been at Jupiter since 2012, will continue to manage some of the income allocation across Jupiter’s multi asset strategy, managed by Talib Sheikh, head of strategy, multi-asset.
Finally, Reza Karim has been promoted to emerging market debt fund manager, having joined the firm in May 2017.
Previously an assistant fund manager, he will continue to work across Jupiter’s full range of emerging market debt funds, collaborating with Alejandro Arevalo, head of EMD, and supported by a dedicated team of analysts.
Stephen Pearson, chief investment officer at Jupiter, said: “I am delighted to be making these promotions across our investment team. At Jupiter we are committed to sustaining our strong active investment culture, retaining and nurturing talented individuals as they progress through their careers, and as such it is particularly pleasing to recognise the contribution of ‘home grown talent’ as they step up to take on further responsibilities.
“These are all strategies that we view as fundamental to delivering on our strategic ambitions as a company – offering clients a broad and diversified choice of attractive opportunities, run by management teams committed to high conviction, active management.”