Edward Cole is Managing Director of Equities at Man GLG, responsible for investment strategy. 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.