Pictet Russian Equities Class I - Accumulation (GBP)

Christopher Bannon joined Pictet Asset Management in 2007 and is a Senior Investment Manager in the Emerging Markets Equities team, specialising in Emerging Europe and Russia. Christopher joined Pictet in 2007, initially as a risk manager before moving across to the Emerging Equities Research team in 2011 specialising in the energy sector across global emerging markets. Christopher started his career in 2005 with Citigroup, where he spent 18 months on the corporate actions desk. Christopher graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA (Hons) in Mathematics and Philosophy and he holds an MSc in Finance (graduated with Distinction) from Imperial College London. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Hugo Bain joined Pictet Asset Management in 2009 as a Senior Investment Manager in the Emerging Markets Equities team, specialising in Emerging Europe and Russia. Before joining Pictet, he spent five years with Fleming Family & Partners Capital Management LLP (FCM) and was a founding partner and co-manager of the FCM European Frontier Fund. He began his career in 1997 at ING, where he remained until 2002 as Head of Russian, Emerging Europe, Africa and Latin America Sales. In 2002 he joined Merrill Lynch as an EMEA Sales Specialist. Hugo has an MA in Modern History from the University of St Andrews.