About Fundamental Tracker Investment Management

Who Are We?

Robert Davies

Managing Director

Rob Davies worked as a professional geologist in Antarctica and Australia before joining the City as a mining analyst. During his 15 years he worked for a number of brokers and investment banks including Smith New Court, Shearson Lehman Hutton and ING Barings. He was a speaker at the Financial Times Gold Conference in 1997 and worked on a number of capital market transactions in the mining industry. From 1999 to 2001 he was a writer at The Motley Fool and co-wrote “The Old Fools Guide to Retirement”. In 2002 he joined the Private Client Department of Clydesdale Bank as Senior Investment Analyst where he was responsible for writing and maintaining investment policy, selecting securities and portfolio creation until the department was sold in 2006. His experience of the stock market as an equity research analyst, personal finance writer and portfolio construction manager has given him a unique background to draw on in crafting this investment process which he now runs as The Fund Manager of The Munro Fund.

Matt Christensen

Non Executive Director

Matt Christenson is the Global Head of Responsible Investment for AXA Investment Managers.  Prior to his appointment, Matt was the Executive Director of Eurosif, the leading European think tank dedicated to public policy and research on sustainable and responsible investment matters. Matt is a frequent speaker at international events on investment matters and was a member of the European Commission's Co-ordination Committee to explore the future of sustainability policy in the EU.

Matt has an international background in consultancy and operational management and was a strategy consultant with Braxton Associates (now a division of Deloitte & Touche) for five years. Prior to his position with Eurosif, he was the European Development Director for the UK based Motley Fool. The Motley Fool has successfully grown from a venture capital funded start-up to a profitable business. An advisor to a number of institutions in Europe, Matt holds an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in International Political Economy and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Henry Lafferty

Non-Executive Chairman

Henry Lafferty MSc FCMA, is Chairman of City of London Group plc, the holding company of FTIM. He is also an executive director of InvestSelect PLC, an investment and management services business, and a non-executive director of a number of other companies.

Having qualified as an accountant in the glass industry, Henry spent the major part of his early career with NFC plc (now part of Deutsche Post), including five years as Finance Director and four years as Managing Director of its property arm, Hyperion Properties PLC. During this period, NFC moved from the public sector to the private sector and on to the London Stock Exchange.

Henry completed the Sloan Fellowship Masters Programme at London Business School prior to joining Jarvis plc in 1994 as Group Finance Director and Chairman of Jarvis Projects (the PFI/PPP arm). He left the Jarvis plc board in 2001 and in the same year was appointed Chief Executive of PatientFirst Partnerships Limited (now part of CareCapital PLC), a business formed to provide serviced accommodation to the primary healthcare sector, which he left in 2004 to form InvestSelect PLC. He qualified as a chartered management accountant in 1976.

John Greenhalgh

Non-Executive Director

MIPR, Chairman and Managing Director, John Greenhalgh founded City of London PR in the 1970s, after an early career in financial and general journalism on three national newspapers. Before setting up City of London PR he created the financial public relations division of the Exchange Telegraph Company, the UK news wire service.

John Greenhalgh, NED. has more than 25 years investment experience and is responsible for COLG's portfolio management which has shown outstanding performance over many years. A stockpicker, he specialises in the Australian market, particularly the mining and oil sectors, as well as selective UK, U.S. and Australian blue chips including convertibles. 

Eric Anstee

Non-Executive Director

Eric is a Chartered Accountant with a strong City reputation. He is currently CEO of City Of London Group plc, an investment group based in the City. He is also a Non-Executive Director with The Financial Reporting Council, as well as with Insight, the UK institutional asset management arm of Bank of New York Mellon; and Paypoint plc. He also serves as a member of The Takeover Panel Appeals Board.

His past Non-Executive positions have included Chairman of Mansell plc, SSL International plc and Severn Trent plc, where he was Chairman of the Treasury and Audit Committees.

Until the end of 2006 he was Chief Executive of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales; prior to which his executive positions included Chairman and CEO of Old Mutual Financial Services plc. He has been CFO of three FTSE 100 companies, Old Mutual plc, The Energy Group plc and Eastern Electricity plc.

His early career included a period of 10 years as a partner with Ernst & Young and a 3 year secondment to HM Treasury.

John Kent

Non-Executive Director

He is a corporate development specialist with a background in Government, the City and Industry. Currently Chairman of two private equity firms and a Non-Executive Director of TTT Moneycorp Ltd, the foreign exchange business. John has led strategy and corporate finance/development for three FTSE 100 groups in the energy and financial services sectors. More recently he has been acting as a corporate development consultant, advising companies such as Close Bros, Filtronic plc. and Aga Rangemaster Group plc. His earlier career as a “fast stream” civil servant in DTI/Treasury included the initial privatization programme. This was followed by a successful spell in Lloyds Merchant Bank, where he became a main board director and the largest fee generator during the early 1990s.

Philip Graves

Deputy Fund Manager

Philip Graves has been working in the UK fund management industry since heading north from Oxford to Glasgow in 1985, with only a couple of breaks to learn new skills.  This included an MBA in the early nineties which also involved a spell as a self-employed management consultant specialising in Japan.  More recently he completed an MSc in Environmental Studies and although the oldest on the course he was proud to be named the top student of the year! 

Philip joined FTIM in July 2011 after completing work for the Scottish Government on wind farm policy.  During his time as a fund manager at Scottish Amicable and Glasgow Investment Managers his main focus was on UK Smaller Companies, assisting the launch of new funds at both firms.  From 1995 to 2009 he was on the UK equity team at Britannic (now Ignis) running both smaller company funds and more general UK funds.  He is well known to those early birds who listen to the financial news on BBC Radio Scotland where he has been a regular contributor for almost 20 years.

Gavin Laidlaw

London Representative

Gavin has worked for various London institutional stockbrokers since leaving Edinburgh in 1987. Prior to full time employment, he gained a law degree from the University of Aberdeen. His first job was as a graduate trainee at brokers Sheppards & Chase where he met Rob Davies, then the resident mining analyst.

For the last 11 years Gavin has been at Société Générale as a generalist salesman following UK equities and also specialising in dividend & value stocks. Gavin had the honour of being Fundamental's broker from inception. In August 2011 Rob asked Gavin to become Fundamental's representative down south. He has many broker stories to recount from working on the Stock Exchange floor during the crash of 1987 to meeting many business icons. Highlights include trying to sell an airline to Richard Branson and broking to Anthony Bolton.

Our Corporate Partners

Lawyers

Accountants

French Duncan, 375 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 4LW.

Custodian

Bank of New York Mellon

Trustee

Royal Bank of Scotland .

Authorised Corporate Director

Smith & Williamson, 25 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6A.

Major Shareholder

City of London Group - see press release by clicking this link

Registered Trade Mark

Munro is a registered trade mark owned by Fundamental Tracker Investment Management Limited.

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