Amundi has appointed State Street Global Advisors? (SSGA) former CIO for fundamental value equities, Barry Glavin as the new head of its equity investment platform. Barry Glavin, who is based in Dublin, worked for SSGA for more than 10 years, having first assumed the CIO post in 2013.

He stepped down from the company in May 2023. Glavin joined SSGA in 2006 and has prior experience at HSBC Asset Management, where he was a portfolio manager, and then an equity analyst. Elsewhere, Amundi has also expanded the role of sector specialist Vafa Ahmadi, who is head of thematic equities for subsidiary group CPR Asset Management.

Ahmadi will now oversee global thematic equity for Amundi.