Melanie Roberts

Director/Board Member at BLACKROCK AMERICAN INCOME TRUST PLC

53 year

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Melanie Roberts is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director at BlackRock American Income Trust Plc since 2019.
Ms. Roberts is also a Director at S.I.M.
Partnership (London) Ltd. since 2016.
Additionally, Ms. Roberts is a Partner & Head of Charities at Sarasin & Partners LLP since 2023.
Formerly, Ms. Roberts was a Principal at Newton Investment Management Ltd. Ms. Roberts completed undergraduate education at the University of Durham.

Melanie Roberts active positions

Companies	Position	Start
BLACKROCK AMERICAN INCOME TRUST PLC	Director/Board Member	01/10/2019
Sarasin & Partners LLP Sarasin & Partners LLP Investment ManagersFinance Sarasin is an active investor who takes a global, long-term, thematic approach to investing – with responsible investment at their core. They identify powerful trends that will shape the investment landscape for years to come and embed stewardship into their investment process. Clients can invest in the firm’s global equity, multi-asset, fixed income and real estate strategies. Portfolios can be constructed either through portfolio funds or as segregated portfolios.	Portfolio Manager-Equities	01/05/2011
S.I.M. Partnership (London) Ltd. S.I.M. Partnership (London) Ltd. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Functions as an investment holding company	Director/Board Member	01/09/2016

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Former positions of Melanie Roberts

Companies	Position	End
Newton Investment Management Ltd. Newton Investment Management Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance NIM is a thematic, team-oriented manager which conducts in-house research to identify themes and trends that influence, or are likely to influence, economies or stock markets globally. The firm focuses their research on the areas they believe are most likely to yield the best performing securities. Portfolio managers construct equity and fixed-income model portfolios in teams. For equity portfolios, the most important aspect of portfolio construction is stock selection as bottom-up decisions drive, to a large extent, a portfolio’s allocation to countries, sectors, and currencies. Their fixed income portfolios utilize both their top-down view of the world’s bond and currency markets and bottom-up investment selection process.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-

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Newton Investment Management Ltd. Newton Investment Management Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance NIM is a thematic, team-oriented manager which conducts in-house research to identify themes and trends that influence, or are likely to influence, economies or stock markets globally. The firm focuses their research on the areas they believe are most likely to yield the best performing securities. Portfolio managers construct equity and fixed-income model portfolios in teams. For equity portfolios, the most important aspect of portfolio construction is stock selection as bottom-up decisions drive, to a large extent, a portfolio’s allocation to countries, sectors, and currencies. Their fixed income portfolios utilize both their top-down view of the world’s bond and currency markets and bottom-up investment selection process.	Finance
BlackRock American Income Trust Plc BlackRock American Income Trust Plc Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust	Miscellaneous
Sarasin & Partners LLP Sarasin & Partners LLP Investment ManagersFinance Sarasin is an active investor who takes a global, long-term, thematic approach to investing – with responsible investment at their core. They identify powerful trends that will shape the investment landscape for years to come and embed stewardship into their investment process. Clients can invest in the firm’s global equity, multi-asset, fixed income and real estate strategies. Portfolios can be constructed either through portfolio funds or as segregated portfolios.	Finance
University of Durham University of Durham Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
S.I.M. Partnership (London) Ltd. S.I.M. Partnership (London) Ltd. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Functions as an investment holding company	Finance