Edward Lees

Edward Lees

Co-Head of the Environmental Strategies Group

Bio

Edward is co-CIO of the Environmental Strategies Group and is a senior portfolio manager of five environmental strategies managed by the team, having co-founded the group when he joined BNPP AM in 2019.

Edward began his career in 1994 at Morgan Stanley in New York in Investment Banking and was subsequently a Managing Director in Equities at Goldman Sachs in London blending quantitative and fundamental practices while investing in companies focused on how the world feeds, moves, energises, and builds itself. He founded the Goldman Sachs Thematic Investment Group that invested across the capital structure including public equity, private equity, and venture deals. He was subsequently a founder of Clear River Capital and a Managing Director in Equities at UBS. He was the co-CIO and co-founder of thematic long-short asset management boutique North Shore Partners.

He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and an AB from Amherst College, magna cum laude.

Location London

Joined 2019

Articles from Edward Lees

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Portfolio perspectives

Emerging market equities offer a deep‑value play as the global growth engine turns green

 By Edward Lees and Ulrik Fugmann, Co-Heads of the Environmental Strategies Group EMs now sit at the centre of the world’s…

By Edward Lees & other authors

11/08/26
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Portfolio perspectives

Emerging market equities offer a deep‑value play as the global growth engine turns green

 By Edward Lees and Ulrik Fugmann, Co-Heads of the Environmental Strategies Group EMs now sit at the centre of the world’s…

By Edward Lees & other authors

11/08/26
Article

Portfolio perspectives

Renta variable emergente: una apuesta de deep value ante el nuevo impulso del crecimiento global

Los mercados emergentes (ME) se sitúan hoy en el epicentro de la transición económica global, actuando como proveedores clave de…

By Edward Lees & other authors

11/08/26
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Portfolio perspectives

AIの収益化：イノベーションの推進と多様な投資機会の創出

By BNP Paribas Asset Management Chief Market Strategist, Daniel Morris, and co-Head, Environmental Strategies Group, Edward Lees   人工知能（AI）は実験段階から大規模な導入段階へと移行し、より幅広い産業において、具体的な収益を生み出す原動力となっています。 AIモデルの性能が向上するにつれ、より多くの企業や産業でAI導入が進み、新たな価値の創出や収益の拡大が見られるようになっています。そしてAIは経済の様々な分野に、さらに広く浸透する潜在性をもつと考えられます。…

By Daniel Morris & other authors

17/07/26
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Portfolio perspectives

Monetising AI: Driving innovation and multiple investment opportunities

By BNP Paribas Asset Management Chief Market Strategist, Daniel Morris, and co-Head, Environmental Strategies Group, Edward Lees  Artificial intelligence has…

By Daniel Morris & other authors

07/07/26
Article

Portfolio perspectives

Monetising AI: Driving innovation and multiple investment opportunities

By BNP Paribas Asset Management Chief Market Strategist, Daniel Morris, and co-Head, Environmental Strategies Group, Edward Lees  Artificial intelligence has…

By Daniel Morris & other authors

07/07/26
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