Lodha would continue to act as a consultant for Fidelity International following 17 years at the firm, but it is another loss for the global equities team, which lost manager of the Global Emerging Markets fund, Alex Duffy, in May.
Kochar joined from Columbia Threadneedle and had over 16 years’ investment experience spanning across management of US, global and absolute return products.
He previously managed the Threadneedle Global Extended Alpha, American Extended Alpha, American Absolute Alpha and American Select funds.
Prior to his 13 plus years at Columbia Threadneedle, he worked at hedge fund manager North Sound Capital and at Merrill Lynch.
Romain Boscher, Fidelity International global chief investment officer – equities, said: “Ashish is a welcome addition to Fidelity’s already strong global equity team.
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