Jeffrey Casson joined Martin Currie in 2010. As well as managing our Latin American strategy, he also has responsibility for researching stocks in the telecoms, media and civil engineering sectors. Jeff came to us from SWIP, where he was investment director in the global-emerging-markets team. As portfolio manager there, Jeff was lead manager of the Latin American strategy and supported Alastair Reynolds in the management of the global-emerging-markets smaller-companies strategy. As sector analyst, he was responsible for stocks in the telecommunications and consumer sectors. Jeff joined SWIP in April 2005 as an investment director on the global-emerging-markets equity team, with particular responsibility for Latin America. Earlier, he was an investment manager at Alliance Trust, where he began his investment career in 1999.