Rob Burdett has joined Nedgroup Investments as head of its international multi-manager business, following his departure from Columbia Threadneedle Investments in April.
Burdett served as head of multi-manager solutions at Columbia Threadneedle for over 17 years, primarily responsible for portfolios such as the CT MM Navigator Distributor fund, which has an FE fundinfo Crown Rating of four. Under his leadership the £313.2m fund achieved top-quartile performance in the IA Mixed Investment 20-60% Shares peer group over the past three years.
Earlier in his career, he was a founding partner of Thames River and worked in Rothschild Asset Management’s multi-asset team.
Burdett said: “Joining Nedgroup Investments is an exciting opportunity. The firm’s ‘founder’s mentality’ and its investment-led, multi-boutique approach, truly resonates with my own values.”
This marks the latest in a string of appointments for Nedgroup, which brought in Alex Ralph and David Roberts from Artemis Investment Management and Aegon Asset Management in March.