Genium appoints investment solutions head



Research house Genium Investment Partners has appointed a head of investment solutions from Mason Stevens.
Andrew Vong has joined the firm from his role as sales director at Mason Stevens where he worked for three years.
Prior to this, he spent 13 years at Macquarie Group in a variety of roles, including business development manager and senior relationship manager.
In his new role at Genium, he will be responsible for attracting new consulting, managed account and research rating clients to Genium while also managing existing client relationships.
He said: “Genium has developed a compelling consulting and research ratings offering, which I am excited to be a part of. I look forward to working with the team to enhance our investment solutions and deliver exceptional value to our clients.”
Chris Lioutas, co-chief executive and chief investment officer at Genium, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Andrew to the team and excited to continue building a team of dynamic and experienced professionals. We’re experiencing strong growth across our consulting and research ratings businesses and are actively investing to resource the team accordingly.”
The firm said further appointments will be made in due course.
Genium Investment Partners was launched in 2013 as Insight Investment Consultants but only rebranded to the new name this year in line with the launch of its research ratings division. Its business covers consulting and manager research, bespoke portfolio management, and research and ratings.
Since then, it has made several senior appointments, having appointed Justin Walsh and Tim Wong earlier this year as senior research analysts, with both joining from Morningstar. Co-chief executive and head of research Tim Murphy also joined from Morningstar in September 2023.
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