Francesca leads a team of specialist Client Portfolio Managers, each aligned to Martin Currie’s investment teams. As an investment specialist, Francesca is an extension of our investment teams by servicing clients, supporting business development and enhancing the teams' franchise value. She bridges the gap between our investors and clients, enabling the investment team to focus on what they do best.
Prior to joining Martin Currie in 2021, Francesca worked at the quant systematic hedge fund manager Man AHL, where she was a Client Portfolio Manager and Product Specialist covering a range of strategies including global macro, momentum and multi-strategy. She started her career at J.P. Morgan as a rotational analyst before settling into a Sales and Relationship Management role within the EMEA ADR business.
Francesca holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, a BA (Hons) in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh. She holds the Investment Management Certificate from CFA UK and the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing. Francesca's diverse passions of art and science produce in her a powerful combination of creativity and analytics which are invaluable in her role.