Amundi, the French asset manager, has bolstered its London-based active global equity team with Jason Josefs as senior portfolio manager, taking the team’s headcount to five.

Josefs will be in charge of the firm’s flagship active global equity thematic fund and report to Paul-Georges Moucan, head of global equities in London.

He joins from Aviva Investors, where he was hired as head of research in 2007 and moved on to manage Aviva’s global equity and balanced managed funds the year after. Between 2002 and 2007, he was a portfolio manager at Bernstein Value Equities, a unit of Alliance Bernstein. He started his career as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1998 before joining Instinet as a quantitative analyst and also helped launching a European investment strategy group in London.

In other developments at the firm, Amundi recently introduced another eight equity exchange-traded funds to the UK market, bringing the total number of its ETF products traded on the London Stock Exchange to 41.