Talvest Fund Management has appointed McLean Budden as lead portfolio manager of the Talvest Canadian Equity Value Fund – the new name for Talvest Canadian Equity Leaders Fund.

McLean Budden will also act as co-manager of Talvest Canadian Multi Management Fund. The Talvest Cdn. Equity Value Fund is an underlying component of the Multi Management fund.

Over the past few weeks, Talvest has made several changes to strengthen the company’s Canadian equity fund lineup:

– Ian M. H. Joseph, Vice President, Equities at TAL Global Asset Management, was appointed lead portfolio manager of Talvest Canadian Equity Growth Fund.
– Domenic Monteferrante, Vice President, Equities at TAL Global Asset Management, was appointed lead portfolio manager of Talvest Dividend Fund.
– Luc de la Durantaye was appointed head of the TAL Global Asset Management Asset Allocation Team, responsible for managing Talvest Canadian Asset Allocation Fund.

“We are pleased that McLean Budden has joined our roster of world-class investment management firms,” said Murray G. Douglas, President and Chief Operating Officer of Talvest. “We want to continue to ensure that Talvest unitholders have access to the best possible portfolio managers for each of our Canadian equity funds.”