Beyond Boris: Navigating uncertainty in UK equities

Lauren has been Special Projects Editor for Investment Week since September 2018, focusing on longer form content, thematic and research-based features and multimedia. She was previously an investment writer at Chelsea Financial Services, and senior reporter at fund management publication FE Trustnet.

Darius joined Chelsea's training scheme in February 1996, after graduating from Birmingham University with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry. He was promoted to managing director in February 2000. As well as managing the business and being part of the research team, Darius is also lead investment advisor on the VT Chelsea Managed fund range, which was launched in 2017.

In 2014, Darius helped launch FundCalibre, an independent ratings and research business. He is also Chairman of the Association for Independent Discount and Non-Advisory Brokers (AIDB). The AIDB represents the views and interests of the discount broking, execution-only and non-advised sales community to the regulator, the fund groups and platforms and the general public. 

Chris Kinder joined the company in 2010 as a portfolio manager in the UK equities team. His main responsibilities are the management of the Threadneedle UK Fund, the Threadneedle UK Extended Alpha Fund, and co-management of the Threadneedle UK Absolute Alpha Fund. He also has research responsibility for the housebuilders, retail, media and oil services sectors.

Before joining the company, Chris was an assistant fund manager at RWC Partners. He has also worked at Govett Investments, gaining experience in smaller companies’ analysis. Chris is a qualified chartered accountant, having worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 4 years before joining the investment management industry.

Chris has a degree in Modern European Languages from Durham University and he also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Tony Lawrence joined 7iM as a Senior Investment Manager for the Multi-Asset Portfolios in early 2015. His responsibilities include portfolio management for the 7IM Multi-Manager Funds and Model Portfolio Service, third-party Fund Manager Selection and contributing to the Asset Allocation process. Directly prior to this move he was Head of Analytics on the Threadneedle Multi-Manager team, responsible for all quantitative assessment on third party product. In a career spanning nearly 20 years in the Financial Services Industry, he has also held roles in Product Development, Hedge Funds and Compliance. Tony has a degree in Mathematics with Finance from the University of Southampton and also holds both the CAIA and CFA designations.