The Board of JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust plc announced the appointment of Robert Lloyd, as a fund manager of the company, alongside Ayaz Ebrahim and Richard Titherington. Robert, an Executive Director at JPMorgan Asset Management and based in Hong Kong, is a portfolio manager within the Asia Pacific Regional team within the Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific (EMAP) Equities team, based in Hong Kong. He joined the Firm in Tokyo in 2005 and transferred to Hong Kong in 2009. Prior to this, Robert spent three years with UBS Asset Management in Tokyo as an investment analyst, initially for risk management and latterly for Japanese equities.