Christine Montgomery joined Martin Currie in 2009 as a director in our global team with responsibility for EAFE and ACWI ex US mandates. She joined us from Edinburgh Partners, where she was an investment partner, managing global and international portfolios for institutional clients, mostly in North America. Before that, she was a global-equities fund manager at Franklin Templeton Investments. Christine began her investment career at Aegon Asset Management (formerly Scottish Equitable). During her 12 years with the company, her roles included head of equities, head of fixed-income and deputy CIO. Before joining Aegon, she had worked in the Department of Accounting at the University of Edinburgh.