Di Bon takes charge of global equities

Alliance Trust has appointed Ilario Di Bon as head of global equities. He joins from Fidelity International where he was head of institutional global equities and, with a team of sector specialists, managed Fidelity's global opportunities fund which grew from $250m to more than $1 billion of assets in under two years.

He spent almost eight years at UBS Global Asset Management, working in both London and Japan, and held a number of senior roles in global and Japanese equities before being promoted to lead portfolio manager, global equities, in 2005.