Martin Currie promotes portfolio manager to take on sustainable equity strategy

Naomi Bant has been promoted to Portfolio Manager at Martin Currie, focusing on their new sustainable equity strategy, which is set to launch this month. She will co-manage the strategy with Will Baylis and Matt Lambert.

Bant joined Martin Currie Australia in late 2006 as a graduate quantitative associate and has been an equity quantitative research analyst since 2008. She also has a CFA.

Martin Currie Australia CIO Reece Birtles said, "I'm very pleased to promote Naomi to the role of Portfolio Manager and to see her growth over the past 13 years. Her promotion to Portfolio Manager also recognises the confidence we have in her capacity to play an integral role within the investment team and for our clients. For the new Sustainable Equity strategy, her expertise will be valuable in bringing together our Sustainability and Financial assessments."