Fidelity Funds - World Fund A-DIST-EUR

Lead fund manager biography

Christine Baalham joined Fidelity International in February 2024 and will start co-portfolio management responsibilities on Global Special Situations / World strategy w.e.f. 1 April 2024. Christine joins us from Ninety One where she has been Co-Portfolio Manager for the flagship Global Equity Strategy since 2019. She joined Ninety One in 2000 and was a founding member of the successful 4Factor equity team. Her responsibilities included global financials sector specialist, global services sector specialist and portfolio manager for the Global Endurance Equity Fund. Christine also headed up the 4Factor UK Equity team from 2004 to 2014 where she was responsible for managing the UK core strategies and a team of PMs and analysts. In addition to her investment responsibilities, she was co-Chair of Inspire, a network promoting collaboration, talent development and advancement of women at Ninety One. She began her career at Schroder Investment Management, where she was recruited as part of the Schroder Investment Management graduate training programme in 1996. She worked on the UK fund management desk before joining the research department as the UK insurance and tobacco analyst. Christine gained a Master of Philosophy degree in Chemistry from Cambridge in 1996, after graduating with a first class degree in Natural Sciences the previous year. She is a member of the CFA institute.

Fund manager biography

Tom record joined Fidelity International in February 2024 and will start co-portfolio management responsibilities on Global Special Situations / World strategy w.e.f. 1 April 2024. Tom joins us from Liontrust (Majedie Asset Management, before its acquisition in 2022), where he has managed the Liontrust Global Equities (c.100 stocks) and Liontrust Global Focus (c. 40 - 50 stocks) funds since 2014, and International Equity (ex-US) Fund since 2019, whilst also acting as Head of Global Equities to build out the Global Franchise. Before joining Majedie, Tom was a Portfolio Manager at Baillie Gifford, where his team was responsible for managing institutional portfolios with combined international equity assets of c. $30 billion. While at Baillie Gifford, he also managed a selection of Global Emerging Market funds, including one focused on China. Tom started at Baillie Gifford as an analyst in 2002, taking on his first PM role in 2005 in Emerging Markets, followed by an International portfolio (Global ex US) from January 2006. Tom holds Master of Arts and Master of Natural Sciences degrees, specialising in Biochemistry, from Pembroke College, Cambridge and is a CFA Charterholder.