Meet the team
The Global Equities team is headed by Mark Hawtin, who has 40 years of investment experience, including managing global equity long only and long/short funds. Mark joined Liontrust in 2024 to create the Global Equities team along with David Goodman, Kevin Kruczynski and Pieran Maru. The four managers run a range of long only and long/short equity funds. Ewan Thompson and Tom Smith joined Liontrust in 2019 and manage emerging markets equity funds and the Japan Equity Fund.
Global Equities
Mark Hawtin
Mark Hawtin is Head of the Global Equities team. Mark joined Liontrust in 2024 from GAM where he was an Investment Director running global long only and long/short funds investing in the disruptive growth & technology sectors. Before joining GAM in 2008 he was a partner and portfolio manager with Marshall Wace Asset Management for eight years, managing one of Europe’s largest technology, media and telecoms hedge funds. Mark Hawtin previously spent seven years at Enskilda Securities, initially as head of sales, before taking responsibility for the international equity business, overseeing pan-European research and trading activities and around a quarter of the investment banking staff.
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David Goodman
David Goodman is a Fund Manager in the Global Equities team. David joined Liontrust in 2024 from GAM where he was responsible for applying technical analysis to assist with portfolio construction and risk management. Between starting his career trading equity derivatives for Citigroup and joining GAM in 2009, he has held numerous senior positions at such companies as SEB, Marshall Wace, Instinet Alpha and Pali International. David Goodman has passed the Securities Association, General Registered Representative examination and has passed the Society of Technical Analysts diploma exam thus is a full member of the Society of Technical Analysts (MSTA).
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Kevin Kruczynski
Kevin Kruczynski is a Fund Manager in the Global Equities team. Kevin joined Liontrust in 2024 from GAM where he managed both Global and US Equity portfolios. He joined GAM Investments in 2016 from THS Partners, a global equity investment firm and a long-standing sub-advisor of GAM’s oldest global equity strategies. Prior to that, Kevin spent two years at Cazenove Capital and in 2001 he worked for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, where he supported the charities team. Kevin holds a degree in Banking and International Finance from City University and is a CFA charterholder.
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Pieran Maru
Pieran Maru is a Fund Manager in the Global Equities team. Pieran joined Liontrust in 2024 from GAM where he covered software and hardware companies in GAM’s Global Equity team. Pieran initially joined GAM’s compliance team in 2017, before moving to the Global Equity team in 2021. Pieran holds a BA in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, the Investment Management Certificate (IMC), Certificate in ESG Investing and has passed CFA Exam Level 1.
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Ewan Thompson
Ewan joined Liontrust in October 2019 as part of the acquisition of Neptune Investment Management, where he started his investment career. Prior to joining Neptune in 2006, he worked as an editor for Yale University Press.
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Thomas Smith
Thomas joined Liontrust in October 2019 as part of the acquisition of Neptune Investment Management, where he started his investment career. Thomas has a Master’s degree in Chemistry from Oxford University.
Read moreVanessa Sinclair is a Fund Manager on the Global Equities team at Liontrust, which she joined in 2025 from GAM, where she led the Equity Investment Specialist group. Prior to GAM, she managed equity product at 1859 Capital, a collaborative multi-asset hedge fund.
Q4 2024
Read the latest edition of the Future Strategist newsletter, featuring articles from Mark Hawtin, David Goodman, Pieran Maru and Linnea Bengtsson.
Funds managed by the team
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to deliver capital appreciation over the long term by taking long, synthetic long and synthetic short positions, primarily in global equities and equity related derivatives.
Global Equities Team
The Liontrust Balanced Fund is managed by Mark Hawtin and Kevin Kruczynski. The Fund aims to generate capital growth over the long term (5 years or more) with the potential for income through investing in global equities and bonds.
Global Equities Team
The Liontrust Global Alpha Fund is managed by Mark Hawtin and Pieran Maru. The fund managers aim to deliver Alpha (i.e. capital growth in excess of the MSCI AC World Index) by running an actively managed portfolio and investing in securities using a combination of economic, industry and stock specific analysis irrespective of a benchmark index.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to identify companies that will be the beneficiaries of digitalisation in the US and invest across three different categories of these beneficiaries: the disruptors, embracers and enablers.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to identify Emerging Leaders equities, which are companies with the resources and capabilities to survive and prosper given the huge levels of disruption across the economy in India.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to identify Emerging Leaders equities, which are companies with the resources and capabilities to survive and prosper given the huge levels of disruption across emerging markets economies.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to identify Emerging Leaders equities, which are companies with the resources and capabilities to survive and prosper given the huge levels of disruption across Latin American economies.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to identify Industry Leaders via a sector-by-sector analysis process, investing in companies that dominate their global industry. These stocks have exposure to faster growing regions, such as emerging markets.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to invest in Emerging Leaders equities, which are companies with the resources and capabilities to survive and prosper given the huge levels of disruption across the economy in China.
Global Equities Team
The Fund seeks to identify Emerging Leaders equities, which are companies with the resources and capabilities to survive and prosper given the huge levels of disruption across the economy in Russia.
“Our experience in managing global funds has allowed us to see markets through many different periods. This experience will serve us well as we enter a period when change has never been so dynamic; both through structural disruption as well as geopolitical uncertainty.”
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