Colonial Stewart Ivory International, now known as First State Investment, has been dropped by Canada's GBC Asset Management as sub-adviser to its C$18.5m (€13.4m) international growth fund.
Colonial Stewart Ivory is being replaced by Chicago-headquartered William Blair & Company. The new managers are set to start advising on the fund's investments on August 15. William Blair is 100% owned by its 185 principals and it has $12bn (€13.4bn) in assets under management globally.