Biography

Stephen joined in March 2005 to support the launch of the Nissay Hermes Stewardship Fund and moved to the Small & Mid Cap team at the beginning of 2009 to establish a Japan Small & Mid Cap strategy. His role has since broadened to include analysis of developed Asian markets for the Global Small Cap strategy. His investment career began at Equity and Law in 1987 as a UK equity analyst; he joined United Friendly to cover Japanese equities in 1989. After serving as head of Japan there and at Royal & Sun Alliance Investment Management from 1991 to 1999, he switched to Pan-European Equities in 2000. He was head of institutional equities at Isis from 2002 until its merger with F&C in 2004. Stephen holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Oxford.