Investment management firm AGF Management Limited (TSX:AGF.B) has tapped Brian Brennan to help manage and increase institutional sales in the burgeoning Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) region, the company announced Tuesday.

Brennan has taken on the newly created role of vice president, institutional business development.

Based out of Dublin, Ireland, Brennan will be responsible for business development and client service initiatives in the institutional pension and sovereign wealth fund markets in the growing EMEA region, said Gary Wing, AGF senior vice president, institutional.

“The number of strategically important clients in the area has grown significantly and we now have someone on the ground to meet their needs,” said Wing.

Prior to his new role, Brennan was the general manager and compliance officer with AGF’s Dublin-based subsidiary AGF International Advisors Company Limited in Dublin since 2006. AGF International Advisors Company Ltd. and its subsidiary AGFIA Limited utilize the same investment management team, provide investment research and advisory services for European and other international markets and for a number of AGF mutual funds and other clients.

Toronto-based AGF has nearly $44.9 billion in assets under management worldwide.

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