Alan Custis Leaves Lazard AM Following UK Equity Team Merger

Alan Custis, head of UK equities at Lazard Asset Management, has left the firm following the merger of its UK equities team into the euro equities team.

Custis, who left the firm on 30 September, had worked at Lazard for almost 20 years, after spending five years at JP Morgan Asset Management. A spokesperson for Lazard Asset Management said the teams had been merged for "business reasons" and Custis had left following "a smooth transition". Mid Wynd International completes switch to Lazard Asset Management The combined UK and euro equities team will now be managed by Aaron Barnfather, the spokesperson said. Barnfather joined the firm in 2008 as a senior portfolio manager of the Lazard European Equity fund. Alan Clifford, who was...

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