ES River and Mercantile Global Alpha Class B - Accumulation (GBP)

Hugh graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Economics. He joined Gartmore in 1987 as a UK Equities graduate trainee and moved to Phillips & Drew in 1990, managing UK equities throughout his twelve years there. He became Head of Smaller Companies in 1997, establishing a new team and launching the UBS Smaller Companies Fund. In March 2000 Hugh was promoted to Head of UK Equities at UBS Global Asset Management and Chairman of the UK Equities Committee. He joined SGAM in 2002 where he was Head of UK Equities, manager of the Growth strategy and co-manager of the Special Opportunities Fund. Hugh joined R&M in August 2006. Hugh is Head of the UK Equities team at R&M with overall responsibility for managing and developing the team. As a Fund Manager he is manager of the UK High Alpha, World Recovery and UK Long Term Recovery strategies.

William joined RAMAM as a UK Equity Analyst in December 2009 after graduating from Oxford University with first class honours in History. He has been a key figure in supporting the development of the equity team's PVT [Potential, Value, Timing] philosophy, which is designed to systematically unearth investment anomalies and ensure they are sensibly applied to client portfolios in a way that maximises returns and minimises risk. In 2013 William was promoted to director of research. William is the fund manager of the UK Dynamic Fund and also the alternate manager on Hugh Sergeant's Recovery strategies.