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Departments

Find your desk

Six departments and fifteen desks, run by 66 members. Choose a department to see what it produces, where it aims and who is on it.

Department

Asset Management

The buy-side desk. Members run a paper portfolio with full attribution, publish research, and host PMs and analysts. Bloomberg training included.

What Associates do

Cover a sector or strategy, publish research, and pitch ideas into the portfolio. Help organise events with industry guests.

The work

What the desk produces

I.

Portfolio Management

Security selection, sector and regional allocation, risk management and execution of the investment committee's themes across the book.

II.

Equity Research

Research, valuation and risk assessment work, for potential suitable names for the portfolio.

III.

Investment Committee

Sets the fund's investment themes and approves every thesis before it enters the portfolio.

IV.

Market & Macro Research

Central banks, economic data, geopolitics and asset allocation views, produced by the Macro & Strategy desk.

V.

Training & Industry Access

Bloomberg training sessions, trading and investment challenges, London and Luxembourg business trips, plus speaker events with AM, WM and ER professionals.

Where the desk aims

Target firms

  • BlackRock
  • Fidelity
  • Capital Group
  • Vanguard
  • State Street
  • Schroders
  • Amundi
  • PIMCO
  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • Wellington Management
  • T. Rowe Price
Published work

Research

  • Macro & StrategyNo Country for Cheap Money: Treasury Yields at Their Highest since 2007Monthly Market Views, October 2026, 5 pagesBy Luís Laboreiro, Alexander Schilling
  • Portfolio ManagementEMFC Global Equity Fund: Investment Policy StatementFund documents, Version 1.0, October 2026, 14 pages
  • Macro & StrategyEmpire Strikes Back: Nvidia reclaims controlMonthly Market Views, September 2026, 4 pagesBy Luís Laboreiro, Luka Thomson
  • Macro & StrategyNerves return: geopolitical tension and AI capex fears test market resilienceMonthly Market Views, July 2026, Issue 07, 4 pagesBy Luís Laboreiro, Luka Thomson
The people

On the desk

Meet the whole team
Macro & Strategy
Equity Research
Asset Management
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