People Moves: Foresight Group appoints Duncan Symonds as Partner to lead its international Real Assets business
London, ENGLAND (Press Release) -- Foresight Group ("Foresight"), a leading listed investment manager in real assets and capital for growth, is pleased to announce the appointment of Duncan Symonds as Partner and Global Head of Real Assets.
Based in London, Duncan will join Foresight Group's Executive Committee, reflecting the strategic importance of his leadership role as the firm continues to expand its real assets platform, which manages £10.9bn in AUM across its comprehensive portfolios of renewable energy, infrastructure and natural capital assets across the UK, Europe and Australia.
Duncan joins Foresight from IFM Investors, one of the World's leading private markets investment managers, where he played a key role in shaping IFM's global strategy and delivering major value creation initiatives across a multi billion pound infrastructure equity portfolio. In his role, Duncan served as Non Executive Investment Director on the boards of Anglian Water Services, M6toll, GlasfaserPlus and Global Infraco, overseeing governance and long term asset development. His earlier career included leadership roles on transformative UK and European infrastructure projects such as Crossrail, the London Bridge Station redevelopment and London Gateway Port.
Gary Fraser, CEO, Foresight Group said: "Duncan brings an exceptional combination of real assets investment experience and operational insight across some of the most significant infrastructure projects in the UK, Australia and Europe. We are confident that Duncan's leadership will be instrumental in strengthening our global real assets platform and, as a member of our Executive Committee, will help drive the Group's strategies to create long-term value for our investors, shareholders and staff."
Duncan Symonds, Partner and Global Head of Real Assets added: "Foresight has built an impressive reputation as a specialist investor, with a strong 15-year track record of supporting sustainable infrastructure and natural capital strategies. I am delighted to join the firm and look forward to working with the team to further expand the platform globally while identifying new opportunities to deploy capital into critical assets that deliver long-term economic and environmental value."
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