William Lynch
Dublin-based KBI Global Investors (formerly Kleinwort Benson Investors) is pleased to announce the appointment of William Lynch as Senior Vice President Business Development, North America.
Lynch, formerly a Partner and Head of Marketing and Client Service at New Amsterdam Partners LLC, has enjoyed a long career in institutional asset management, with earlier spells at Avatar Associates and Prudential Securities. He is a CFA Charter holder and a member of both the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute.
As a member of the KBIGI North American Business Development team, Lynch will work out of the Company’s office in Boston, Massachusetts – opened earlier this year to better service the Company’s growing North American client base, from the East Coast to the West Coast, and into Canada, where KBIGI has been awarded a number of sizeable mandates.
KBIGI has grown significantly in recent years, with its North American client assets alone growing from just under $1bn in December 2012 to no less than $4.3bn as of 30th September 2016* and it is this growth that has underpinned the need for a fully-equipped Boston office and the evolution of the North American business development capability. The Company has secured a number of prestigious North American mandates over the last two or three years from public funds, endowments and foundations – and a number of large sub-advisory relationships with the likes of Mercer and SEI.
Commenting on the appointment, Geoff Blake, Head of Business Development & Client Services at KBI Global Investors said, “We opened our new Boston office back in January to accommodate the growth we anticipate across our investment strategies, and which we expect to accelerate. Bill’s appointment means that we now have three Business Development Managers based at our Boston Place offices, underlining our long-term commitment to the North American market, our growth to date and our expectations for the future. Bill has a tremendous track record in gathering assets, and we look forward to working with him as we embark on a new phase of growth.”
KBI Global Investors is a specialist equity manager, offering a range of Global Equities and Natural Resources strategies. Established in 1980, KBIGI has been managing assets for institutional clients for more than 35 years – public and corporate pension schemes, sub-advisory investors, foundations and endowments, wealth managers, private banks and investment intermediaries included. The firm enjoys an increasingly global client base, and holds mandates in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia. Part of the Amundi Group, KBIGI is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with sales offices in both New York and Boston.
Originally focused only on the Irish market, managing predominantly domestic balanced mandates, KBIGI is today a specialist institutional asset management boutique.
The firm enjoys significant coverage across the global institutional consultant community and offers investment services on both a segregated and unitised basis.
KBIGI’s highly experienced management teams manage 9.6 billion dollars of assets at 30th September 2016*. The firm boasts an excellent track record for consistent risk-adjusted investment performance over the longer term, and has seen its assets under management grow by on average 28% per annum between 2011 and 2015.
The firm is headed by CEO, Sean Hawkshaw, and has a headcount of approximately 60 people, with the KBIGI management team and a number of key employees holding 12.5% of the equity in KBI Global Investors.
