A little over four months into the role, the head of AllianceBernstein’s client group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa client group, Jamie Hammond, tells Financial News about his ambition to boost the fund manager’s profile in the region, expand into the retail market and grow its multi-asset range.

The $483 billion investment firm manages some $61 billion in Emea, of which $15 billion is retail money. Hammond joined AB after 16 years at fellow US manager Franklin Templeton, where he had latterly been its managing director for Europe.