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Sands Capital Emerg Mkts Gth A GBP Acc

Price: £22.01|Change: 0.24 (-1.08%)

Management

Name of companySands Capital Management, LLC
Phone+1 703 5624000
Websitewww.sandscapital.com
Address1000 Wilson Boulevard
Suite 3000
Arlington 22209
United States

Fund

DomicileIRL
Legal structureOEIC
UCITSYes
Inception date24/05/2016

Managers

Fund managerAshraf Haque
Manager start date31/10/2013
BiographySr. Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst Joined Sands Capital in 2008 Research Analyst (2008-2013) Chesapeake Partners (2007-2008) Baltimore, MD • Investment Analyst McKinsey & Company (2003-2005) Chicago, IL • Business Analyst GH Smart & Company (2001-2003) Chicago, IL • Director, Business Development Harvard University MBA, Harvard Business School (2007) Northwestern University BA, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics (2001)
Fund managerBrian Christiansen
Manager start date31/10/2013
BiographyBrian is a senior portfolio manager, research analyst, and executive managing director at Sands Capital. He joined Sands Capital in 2006 as a research associate, covering life sciences, after completing the first year of the MBA program at the Yale School of Management as a Silver Scholar. In 2008, Brian returned to complete the second year of the MBA program while continuing to work part time for Sands Capital. Following the completion of his MBA, he resumed working full time and rejoined as a research analyst, covering life sciences.In 2011, Brian became a co-portfolio manager of the Emerging Markets Growth strategy. In 2017, he was promoted to senior portfolio manager, and he was named as a director on the executive management team, which provides strategic leadership across the firm, in 2018. He became a co-portfolio manager on the Global Growth strategy in 2020 and was named director of stewardship in 2021. He served in this role until 2023, when a senior analyst on the stewardship team succeeded him.In addition to receiving an MBA from the Yale School of Management, Brian also received a BA in economics from Yale University. He is a CFA® charterholder
Fund managerNeil Kansari
Manager start date31/10/2013
BiographyNeil Kansari, Research Analyst and Senior Portfolio Manager, joined Sands Capital in June 2008. Prior to 2008, Mr. Kansari worked as an Associate, Sr. Business Analyst at PRTM in Waltham, Massachusetts, from 2002 to 2006. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1996 to 1999, he worked as an Application Analyst at Millennium Solutions, Universal Impex and as an Accounting Trainee at Mahajan & Aibara: Shah Gupta & Co. in Mumbai, India. Mr. Kansari earned his BE in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai (1996), and his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia (2002). He also earned his MBA from the Darden School of Business (2008).

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