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Max King
Located in: London

Max is a portfolio manager on the UK Equity team. Prior to joining Investec Asset Management, he was a director of JO Hambro Capital Management, where he managed a range of portfolios, with a variety of investment remits including 'special situations', mid to large cap pan-European companies and UK small caps. Before that, he worked for Finsbury Asset Management between 1987 and 1997 as a director and senior investment manager, with responsibilities for several investment trusts, focused on a variety of UK stocks. Max also worked for LF Rothschild for four years as a vice president in the risk arbitrage department, investing proprietary capital and client money, after an initial five years as an articles clerk and accountant. Max graduated from Cambridge with a degree in economics.

Philip Saunders
Located in: London

Philip Saunders was educated at Cambridge University where he specialised in Economic History and graduated in 1980. He was briefly employed by Virgin Records before joining Guinness Mahon & Co. Limited, the London based merchant bank, as a graduate trainee. He worked in all of the Bank`s principal operating areas before joining its Investment Department on a permanent basis and training as an Investment Manager. He specialised in currency and fixed income management and took over day to dayresponsibility for Guinness Mahon`s managed currency funds in 1984, becoming the senior currency and bond team director and a founding director of Guinness Flight Global Asset Management Limited in 1987. In 1996 he moved within the company to lead its retail sales and marketing activities. In January 2000, he rejoined the investment team as Head of International Private Client and Multi-Manager Investment Services.