New head of Canadian distribution
Andrew Kitchen joins as Senior Managing Director and Head of Canadian Distribution.
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Canadian arm of Boston's MFS, with a Toronto investment office and sales offices in Montreal and Vancouver.
MFS Investment Management Canada Limited is the Canadian entity of MFS, the Boston-based active manager that is majority-owned by Toronto's Sun Life Financial (Sun Life bought MFS in 1982). Toronto is one of MFS's eight global investment offices, at the TD Centre, and the firm also has sales offices in Montreal and Vancouver. Its Canadian distribution team, led since January 2025 by Andrew Kitchen, sells MFS's equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset strategies to Canadian institutions. MFS publishes no Canada-specific AUM, headcount or student program.
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Institutional sales to Canadian clients, coordinated with MFS's global consultant relations, strategic accounts and relationship management teams.
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Toronto is one of MFS's eight investment offices, alongside Boston, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo and Tokyo.
The Canadian institutional site offers fundamental equity, quantitative solutions, fixed income and specialty/multi-asset strategies.
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| Montreal | QC | office |
| Vancouver | BC | office |
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Senior Managing Director, Head of Canadian Distribution
Canadian Distribution
Leads MFS's institutional sales in Canada and works with its global distribution teams on Canadian client relationships. He joined MFS in this role effective January 17, 2025, and is the firm's listed Canada contact.
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Jan 17, 2025
Andrew KitchenHire
Senior Managing Director, Head of Canadian Distribution
— → MFS Investment Management
MFS hired Kitchen to lead its Canadian institutional sales. The hire is on MFS's official announcements page; the effective date comes from a Pensions & Investments search snippet. His previous employer was not confirmed.
Andrew Kitchen joins as Senior Managing Director and Head of Canadian Distribution.
Sun Life Financial of Canada buys MFS, which remains a majority-owned Sun Life subsidiary.
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