M&G Smaller Companies Class I - Income (GBP)

James Taylor was appointed deputy fund manager of the M&G Dividend Fund in August 2019. He joined M&G in 2014 as a graduate before becoming an embedded analyst in the Income team in January 2016 where he supported the managers of the M&G UK Select, M&G Dividend and M&G Pan-European Dividend funds. In March 2019, the M&G UK Select Fund and the M&G Dividend Fund were transferred to the UK Equities team and James moved across with them. He graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc in Business Administration, and has passed all three levels of the CFA program.

Garfield Kiff was appointed fund manager of the M&G Smaller Companies Fund in June 2015. He joined M&G in 2000 from PricewaterhouseCoopers as a smaller companies analyst. He was deputy manager of the M&G Recovery Fund from 2002 until 2008, and managed the Prudential Pooled Pensions Smaller Companies Fund between 2003 and 2008. Garfield was manager of the M&G UK Growth Fund from 2007 until it merged with the M&G UK Select Fund in 2012 and he became the deputy manager. Garfield graduated from the University of Liverpool with a first class honours degree in economics in 1996 and is a CFA charterholder.

Hilary Aldridge has more than 18 years' experience investing in UK equities. She joined M&G in November 2019 from DWS Group where she was Director, UK Equities and a portfolio manager and analyst in the pan-European team. Prior to this, Hilary worked at Barclays Global Investments & Solutions as a portfolio manager with the multi-manager team, and with F&C Asset Management as a Director in the UK Equities team. Hilary has a background in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing as a manager on the F&C Stewardship funds and as an adviser to Big Issue Invest, the UK's first social merchant bank. She graduated with an LLB in Law from the University of Birmingham.