Edward Cole is Managing Director of Discretionary Investments at Man GLG. He is responsible for the development of investable strategies, and provides market strategy insight for the portfolio managers and the firm’s clients. He joined Man Group in 2015, co-managing emerging-market equity strategies until the end of 2018.

He started his career in 2001 working for specialist Eastern European-focused investment banks as an equity strategist during the period of EU accession for former communist-bloc countries, and moved to JPMorgan in 2005 as a global emerging market equity strategist. He has worked in investment management since 2007, managing long-only, long/short and multi-strategy emerging market funds.

Edward graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc in Politics and from the London School of Economics with an MSc in International Development.