John Chatfeild-Roberts, head of strategy for the Jupiter Independent Funds Team, discusses the defining moments of his career and the importance of investor education with Square Mile's Victoria Hasler.
How did you get into fund management? Economics was the first subject at which I got good reports at school - and that is because I liked it and worked hard at it. I went to Durham to study economics and then into the army but I quickly realised that wasn't the career for me. I then had to figure out what to do with my life. After some false starts I got a job at Hendersons in the private client division, which I put down more to luck than design as I didn't even know what a fund manager was at the time. The guy who was running the funds of funds left and I was asked to take them over ...
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