LONDON / DUBAI: Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a leading global asset management group, with US$494 billion assets under management, announces the appointment of Jack Harvey, CFA as Director, Middle East in its Dubai office, reporting to Edwin Lawrence, Columbia Threadneedle’s Head of Middle East. In his role, Jack will be responsible for supporting existing clients in the region and broadening relationships with institutions, family offices, partners and distributors.

Edwin Lawrence, Head of Middle East at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, commented: "I am delighted to welcome Jack to our team. We established a presence in Dubai 10 years ago and have been successful in developing our institutional client base in the region. Jack’s appointment and experience will help us build upon this success by deepening and broadening relationships with our partners in the Middle East. We believe Columbia Threadneedle’s truly global and active investment approach offers compelling investment solutions across a range of asset classes and look forward to offering our award-winning expertise to even more clients in the region".

Jack Harvey joins Columbia Threadneedle Investments from Franklin Templeton where he had been since 2014, most recently as a Client Relationship Manager covering institutional clients in the Middle East. Before that, he worked at JP Morgan in various roles covering direct clients, IFAs, platforms & networks, private wealth managers and family offices. Jack started his career in 2010 at UBS where he supported the sales and client serving efforts of the UK Institutional Business' pension and insurance channels. Jack holds a Bachelor's degree from Loughborough University, England in Banking & Finance and is a CFA charter holder.

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About Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset manager that provides a broad range of actively managed investment strategies and solutions for individual, institutional and corporate clients around the world.

With more than 2000 people including over 450 investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia, we manage US$494 billion of assets across developed and emerging market equities, fixed income, asset allocation solutions and alternatives.

Our priority is the investment success of our clients. We know investors want strong and repeatable risk-adjusted returns and we aim to deliver this through an active and consistent investment approach that is team-based, risk-aware and performance-driven. Our investment teams around the world work together to uncover investment insights. By sharing knowledge across asset classes and geographies we generate richer perspectives on global, regional and local investment landscapes. The ability to exchange and debate investment ideas in a collaborative environment enriches our teams' investment processes to ensure the best insights are applied to portfolios. More importantly it results in better informed decisions for our clients.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments is the global asset management group of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE:AMP), a leading US-based financial services provider. As part of Ameriprise, we are supported by a large and well-capitalised diversified financial services firm.

1 Source: Ameriprise Financial Q4 2019 earnings release. Columbia Threadneedle Investments as at 31 December 2019.

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