MI Hawksmoor Vanbrugh Fund Class C - Accumulation (GBP)

Ben joined Hawksmoor in 2019 as a Fund Manager and helps manage the Vanbrugh, Distribution and Global Opportunities Funds. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Having begun his investment career in London working as a Portfolio Manager for Barclays Wealth, he relocated home to the Westcountry in 2009 spending 7 years with Charles Stanley where he sat on the firm's structured product and investment strategy committees. He moved to Brooks Macdonald as an Investment Director in 2016 with responsibility for private client portfolios and intermediary relationships.

Ben was born in 1979 and graduated in 2002 from Trinity College, Cambridge with a degree in Economics. He joined the graduate program of Deutsche Bank in London and specialised in Japanese equities having spent his gap year teaching English with Project Trust in rural Japan. He moved to Merrill Lynch in 2004, where he became a Director of Japanese Equities. In 2008 Ben left the City and moved to Sydney to help start-up an energy consultancy with two close friends. Having enjoyed Australia's more laid back lifestyle for 2 years, Ben returned to the UK, relocating to the South West and joining Hawksmoor in July 2010. He has worked on the Fund Management team since 2011 and been a co-manager of the Vanbrugh, Distribution and Global Opportunities Funds since January 2014. In the Autumn of 2018 he was appointed a Director of Hawksmoor Investment Management Limited and is now Head of the Fund Management Team.

Daniel was born in 1973 and began his investment career in 1998 with Abbey Life Investment Services in Bournemouth, where he worked in the fixed interest team as a money market and foreign exchange dealer. This included a stint in London with Hill Samuel Asset Management after the merger of Abbey Life and Hill Samuel. Daniel returned to Bournemouth in 2001 to join Christows Stockbrokers, working with Nick Greenwood on his funds of investment trusts. Following a change in ownership at Christows and the departure of key individuals, Daniel left to be a founding member of iimia in 2002. His role progressed from assistant fund manager of the iimia Accelerated Fund and iimia Investment Trust, to lead manager of the iimia Income Fund and finally Head of Investment Services. In 2008 Daniel was awarded the prestigious Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year for his stewardship of the iimia Income Fund. Daniel joined Hawksmoor in June 2009 as Fund Manager and remains co-manager of the Vanbrugh, Distribution and Global Opportunities Funds. He is also CIO - Fund Management.