Benedikt Blomberg, Nicolas Janvier and Amit Kumar join as senior analysts, reporting to Diane Sobin, head of US equities. The trio each have over ten years of experience in the field of asset management and join Stéphane Jeannin and Brad Colton on the team.

Blomberg and Janvier are latterly of Columbia Management which along with Threadneedle make up the global asset management business of Ameriprise Financial. Columbia is the group’s US-based investment manager, with assets under management of $358 billion, as at end-March 2014.

Janvier will maintain his analytical duties and responsibilities with Columbia Management’s New York-based value team. Kumar joins from Artham Capital Partners.

Meanwhile, Richard Adams - previously an analytics manager in the reporting and information services team at Threadneedle - has joined the US equities team as client portfolio manager.

The appointments follow that of US fund manager Nadia Grant earlier this year, joining existing fund managers Neil Robson and Ashish Kochar, and bringing Threadneedle’s US equities team to ten.