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Mr. James A. Bristow, CFA, is a Portfolio Manager at Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. He is also a Managing Director and a member of the Group's Management Committee.
Mr. Bristow has been an active investor in public equities since 1998, focusing on Global Equities since 2003.
He manages concentrated, high-conviction strategies, investing across Developed and Emerging Markets.
He began his investment career in 1998 at JP Morgan Investment Management.
In 2006, he moved to the Global Equity team at BlackRock.
He held various leadership positions on the team from 2012, most recently, heading up the Global Specialist team, focusing on unconstrained long-only funds, and a long-short strategy.
He graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with a B.A (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics.
He holds the CFA designation.
James Bristow active positions
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Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd.
Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance FTIML offers an extensive range of funds designed for UK investors and showcases some of the firm’s strongest investment capabilities in key markets such as the UK, Europe and the US, as well as in broader global fixed income and equity. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | 2025-01-31 |
Former positions of James Bristow
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BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BIM-UK utilizes their market insights, global reach, proprietary technology, culture of information sharing and focus on risk management to deliver performance in all market environments. For their equity investments, the firm utilizes style-neutral (core and high performance), value and growth processes. They have combined a top-down and bottom-up approach for their fixed-income and balanced products. The fixed-income investment team specializes in market segments and focuses on quantitative analysis. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | 2023-10-02 |
BlackRock International Ltd.
BlackRock International Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BIL is an active manager which performs in-house fundamental and technical research, supplemented by external research, to construct portfolios. They primarily invest in growth and value stocks of small-, mid- and large-cap companies employing a thematic investment approach. The firm manages all non-US equity portfolios from Edinburgh, communicating regularly with the US equity and fixed-income management teams to capitalize on global themes, including macroeconomic interest rate trends and information on multinationals. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | 2023-10-02 |
BlackRock Advisors LLC
BlackRock Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock Advisors offers investors around the world a variety of investment products that span across asset classes, market-caps, investment styles and geographic regions. Their mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset and quantitative equity strategies. | Analyst-Equity | - |
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BlackRock Advisors LLC
BlackRock Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock Advisors offers investors around the world a variety of investment products that span across asset classes, market-caps, investment styles and geographic regions. Their mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset and quantitative equity strategies. | Finance |
Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd.
Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance FTIML offers an extensive range of funds designed for UK investors and showcases some of the firm’s strongest investment capabilities in key markets such as the UK, Europe and the US, as well as in broader global fixed income and equity. | Finance |
BlackRock International Ltd.
BlackRock International Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BIL is an active manager which performs in-house fundamental and technical research, supplemented by external research, to construct portfolios. They primarily invest in growth and value stocks of small-, mid- and large-cap companies employing a thematic investment approach. The firm manages all non-US equity portfolios from Edinburgh, communicating regularly with the US equity and fixed-income management teams to capitalize on global themes, including macroeconomic interest rate trends and information on multinationals. | Finance |
Magdalen College School Oxford Ltd
Magdalen College School Oxford Ltd Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BIM-UK utilizes their market insights, global reach, proprietary technology, culture of information sharing and focus on risk management to deliver performance in all market environments. For their equity investments, the firm utilizes style-neutral (core and high performance), value and growth processes. They have combined a top-down and bottom-up approach for their fixed-income and balanced products. The fixed-income investment team specializes in market segments and focuses on quantitative analysis. | Finance |
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