Home / News / Premier Miton bolsters European team with RWC hire as it plots second fund launch Premier Miton bolsters European team with RWC hire as it plots second fund launch Russell Champion’s appointment ends his 13-year working relationship with fund manager Graham Clapp Premier Miton has bolstered its European equities team with a hire from RWC as its plans a second fund launch for lead managers Carlos Moreno and Thomas Brown. Russell Champion is slated to join Premier Miton later this year and will assist Moreno (pictured) and Brown on the £2.2bn European Opportunities fund. At RWC he worked on the Continental European Equity and European Equity funds fronted by former Fidelity manager Graham Clapp. Champion has worked alongside Clapp for close to 13 years, first as an equity analyst at Fidelity and then as a partner and assistant portfolio manager at Clapp’s boutique Pensato Capital which he launched in 2008. Pensato was acquired by RWC in 2017.