Ruffer

Joined Mercury Asset Management (now part of BlackRock) in 1992 and spent eight years managing UK pension fund portfolios, leaving in 2000 to join McKinsey & Company as a consultant to investment management and financial services companies. Joined Ruffer in 2005, focusing on its institutional business.

Previously International Equities Head at Rothschild Private Management and European Equities Head at Rothschild Asset Management. He graduated from Oxford and was a Senior Investment Manager at Allied Dunbar, before moving to Threadneedle as Head of European Equities. He joined Ruffer in 2006, is co–manager of the LF Ruffer Total Return Fund and manages a number of segregated portfolios for institutional and private clients.

Worked at the Bank of England in research, then moved into investment management at Phillips & Drew, becoming a partner. Moved in 1988 to Capel–Cure Myers, where he was responsible for a team dealing with charity, ethical and pension fund management and concentrated personally on individual and small group pension schemes. He joined Ruffer in 2002.

After graduating from Oxford University, he worked at Phillips & Drew Fund Management (1991–1999), predominantly managing UK equity portfolios for pension funds. A consultant for McKinsey & Company from 1999, he joined Deutsche Asset Management in 2004. In 2005, worked as a fund manager at Société Générale, focusing on pooled UK equity and multi–asset portfolios for UK institutions and retail investors. He joined Ruffer in 2010.

Previously Managing Director of Bessemer Group (UK) Limited, she was Chief Investment Officer of the group’s non–US investments. She graduated from Oxford and started her career at NatWest Bank prior to becoming a Fund Manager of a Japanese–Pacific Unit Trust at Guinness Mahon & Co Ltd. She joined Ruffer in 2009.

Joined Ruffer in 2014 after working for ten years at EIRIS, a research provider for environmental, social and governance performance, in several positions. Her last role as a Principal Research Analyst at EIRIS mainly focussed on Corporate Governance issues and criteria development. From 1999–2003 she worked at the Moral Theology department at Frankfurt University for the Business Ethics Chair. In 2003 she graduated from Frankfurt University with a MA (distinction) in Theology and a MA (distinction) in Literature.

Joined Ruffer in 2006 after graduating from Exeter University with an honours degree in economics and finance; he is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. He initially worked as assistant to Jonathan Ruffer and now manages investment portfolios, concentrating on family offices and corporate pension schemes. He is co–manager of Ruffer Total Return International.

Previously Director at Le Masurier, James & Chinn, now absorbed within the HSBC Group. He spent thirteen years there, with responsibility for offshore private clients, moving to Chiswell Associates in 2001 to focus on charity fund management, before joining Ruffer in 2004 to help develop the firm’s charity business. He holds an MBA from Henley Management College and is manager of Ruffer’s Common Investment Fund, the Charity Assets Trust.

Joined Ruffer in 2013. After reading politics at Newcastle University, she worked with oil and gas companies on their corporate and financial strategies before joining the fund team at Ingenious Investments. She is a CFA charterholder.