Delighted to be at the helm of 8AM Global managing our range of model portfolios letting the quants drive the fund selection but steering the conservative asset allocation. Actually been in the industry for 35 years now and seen much change. Japan was the place to invest when I started in 1988 and up until just recently it has been the US - will it ever be the UK ?? In between we have had the Emerging Markets enthusiasm, the dot com bubble, a few mean recessions , the rise of Corporate bond funds , multi asset, Big tech and growth, and then pandemic , war , inflation and Trump !!!. Lots of challenges, lots of friends made along the way but still love the industry and more excited than eve