MI Hawksmoor Vanbrugh Fund Class C - Accumulation (GBP)

Ben was born in 1978 and graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with an honours degree in History and Politics. 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 firms 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 joined Hawksmoor in 2019 as a Fund Manager and helps manage the Vanbrugh, Distribution and Global Opportunities Funds, in February 2024 Ben was promoted to Senior Fund Manager. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Dan Cartridge joined Hawksmoor Investment Management in November 2016 and is a Fund Manager on the Hawksmoor Vanbrugh, Distribution, and Global Opportunities Funds. Dan has a first-class degree in Mathematics with Finance from the University of Exeter, holds the Investment Management Certificate and has passed Level 1 of the CFA programme.

Daniel Lockyer has been involved in the investment management industry for more than 25 years. He began his investment career in 1998 with Abbey Life Investment Services in Bournemouth, before joining Christows Stockbrokers. He was then a founding member of iimia in 2002 where he was awarded the prestigious Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Award in 2008 for his stewardship of the iimia Income fund. He joined Hawksmoor in June 2009 and now serves as co-manager of the Vanbrugh, Distribution and Global Opportunities Funds.

Ben Conway 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. Ben returned to the UK in July 2010, relocating to the South West and joining Hawksmoor. 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. Ben is now Chief Investment Officer & Head of the Fund Management Team.