Zehrid Osmani

Zehrid is head of the Global Long-Term Unconstrained team and is manager of Franklin Global Trust.

He joined Martin Currie in May 2018 from BlackRock, where he held a number of senior roles from January 2008. At BlackRock, he was a senior portfolio manager and had responsibility for managing several pan-European equity funds with a specific focus on unconstrained, high-conviction, long-term portfolios, as well as being Head of European Equities Research. Prior to this, Zehrid managed equity portfolios at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), and was a specialist sector analyst at Commerzbank Securities, UBS Warburg and Credit Lyonnais. Zehrid began his investment career as a trainee fund manager at Scottish Investment Trust.

He has a BA in Economics and Finance from University of Paris-La Sorbonne and a Masters in International Finance from the University of Glasgow.