Gartmore UK Focus Accumulation Shares

Ashley Willing
Located in: London

Ashley joined Gartmore in 1994 as an investment analyst. He assumed responsibility in 1997 for managing a number of UK pension funds. From 1999 he was responsible for running the pooled and NatWest Life funds, as well as being a member of the UK Retail team. He has recently relinquished his institutional responsibilities to concentrate fully on hedge fund and high performance retail funds. Ashley graduated from Loughborough University in 1994 with an Honours degree in Economics with Politics. Prior to University, Ashley worked in accounting for four years where he was involved in the auditing of a number of UK companies.

Simon King
Located in: London

Simon joined Gartmore in 1994 and is a Senior Investment Manager on Gartmore`s UK Equities team. With Ashley Willing, Simon is co-manager of the UK long/short fund and the UK Focus Fund. Prior to this he was a member of the UK Smaller Companies team where he ran a number of specialist pension fund products, as well as UK Emerging Companies Strategy Fund (1998-2000) and the NatWest Smaller Companies Exempt Fund (1994-1999).Simon previously spent 3 years as a research analyst at County NatWest Securities and Credit Lyonnais. Prior to this he spent 5 years at CCF Laurency Prust as a research analyst, including a period as a corporate finance executive in the Paris office. Simon graduated from Surrey University in 1985 with an Honours degree in Economics.