Kim Catechis

Kim Catechis joined Martin Currie in October 2010 as head of global emerging markets， a role he held at SWIP since 1998， when he established and recruited its global-emerging-markets team. At SWIP， Kim was responsible for £2.2 billion in funds under management and was lead portfolio manager on the firm’s global-emerging-markets equity fund. He also specialised in energy‐sector research. Before joining SWIP， Kim established and managed two asset‐management ventures in Spain: Eagle Star Inversiones and， earlier， FG Gestión. He began his investment career as a portfolio manager for Edinburgh Fund Managers in 1987. Kim is fluent in Spanish， Portuguese， French and Greek， has intermediate Russian， Italian and German， and is studying Mandarin.