My credentials
I have been in and around the investment fund management business for 50 years and seen all its comings and goings, successes and failures. My career has spanned managing investments, running asset management businesses of varying sizes, being chairman of trade associations at home and abroad, creating a self regulatory body, consulting and advising governments of developing countries, writing laws and regulations, training. In fact anything “so long as it pays and is legal, Guv!” This tells you more:
http://www.cadoganfinancial.co.uk
In case I have given the impression that I am totally venal, I’ve actually done some non-paying pro-bono stuff too. Like: Hon-Treasurer of the National Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux where I worked with the Bank of England to create a Money Advice Service: Non-executive director of National Savings; Chairman of FIMBRA an SRO for financial advisers under the 1986 Financial Services Act, which virtually created the IFA business we see today.
My blogs
All commercial businesses in financial services peddle a mix of truth and illusion. My aim is to try to disentangle the two. You can find my blogs on the menu. There are always current fads and fashions, some of which are transitory and some permanent. The scope and quantity of regulation may or may not protect consumers or just be another compliance box ticking exercise.
Training
Unless people are happy to be quite well paid 9-5 clerks (and despite fancy titles this 19thC word describes that well), those working in investment fund management companies should be interested to learn how the business that pays their wages actually works. My company has just recently created an online version of our popular and long running classroom course:
All about investment funds 