Portfolio Management Team

RNS Number : 7418C

JPMorgan Asian Investment Tst PLC

19 October 2015

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

JPMORGAN ASIAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC (the 'Company')

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT TEAM

The Board of JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce that Mr. Richard Titherington, Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Emerging Markets & Asia Pacific Equities team, has been appointed co-manager of the Company's portfolio with immediate effect.

Mr. Titherington's appointment follows the Company's announcement on 15th April, 2015, that Mr. Ted Pulling, co-manager of the Company's portfolio for the last three years, would be relocating from Hong Kong to the United States with his family later in the year.

Mr. Titherington, who relocated to Hong Kong in August this year, will manage the Company's portfolio along with Sonia Yu, who will continue as co-manager, with the full support of the Asian equities team.

19th October 2015

For further information, please contact:

Simon Crinage

For and on behalf of

JPMorgan Funds Limited - Head of Investment Trusts

020 7742 4000

Alison Vincent

For and on behalf of

JPMorgan Funds Limited - Secretary

020 7742 4000

 

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