The Polar Capital Melchior European Opportunities Team

David joined Dalton Strategic Partnership, which was acquired by Polar Capital in 2021, in 2005 and has managed the Melchior European Opportunities Fund since its launch in May 2010. Prior to this, he was an analyst on the Melchior European Absolute Return strategy and managed a long-only segregated account from 2008.

Eleanor joined Dalton Strategic Partnership, which was acquired by Polar Capital in 2021, in 2012 as an analyst in their European equity long/short team and has been the deputy portfolio manager and senior analyst on the Melchior European Opportunities Team since 2019 before becoming a Fund Manager in 2022. She has 15 years of investment experience covering European equities, starting her career as an analyst at T Rowe Price before moving with her team to build the European long-only fund at GAM. In 2015, she joined Cheyne Capital as a junior portfolio manager in their hedge fund business before re-joining Dalton in 2017 as a senior analyst in the company’s long-only European equity team.

Jo Ann joined Dalton Strategic Partnership, which was acquired by Polar Capital in 2021, in September 2016 as an analyst for the European Opportunities Fund. She has worked in the investment industry since 2012, when she joined GIC Asset Management, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. After completing a one-year graduate programme at GIC and a spell as a macro research and strategy associate within the company's fixed income division, she moved into the European equities department where she was an analyst responsible for investment research.