Round Table Panel

James Glover
James Glover
Executive Director
J.P. Morgan Asset Management


James Glover, executive director, is a client portfolio manager within the J.P. Morgan Asset Management European Equity Group. An employee since 2005, James was previously head of investment trust sales in the specialist pooled funds group, responsible for the development and implementation of the sales strategy of J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s range of investment trusts. He was previously sales director of investment trusts at Close Finsbury Asset Management and before that was a private client investment manager at Rathbones. James is a Chartered Member of the Securities & Investment Institute.

Neil Tong
Neil Tong
Head of UK Equities
Alliance Trust PLC


Neil Tong joined Alliance Trust in 1997 and has responsibility for the UK Equities portfolio. Previously, Neil worked as Head of Overseas Equities and Head of Fixed Interest with General Accident. He trained as an Equity Analyst with the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, before moving to General Accident in 1990 as a Senior UK analyst. Neil graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics from Newcastle University and is an Associate of the Society of Investment Professionals.

Bruce Stout
Bruce Stout
Senior Investment Manager
Aberdeen Asset Management


Bruce Stout is a senior investment manager on the Global equities team. Bruce joined Aberdeen in 1987 via the acquisition of Murray Johnstone. Bruce has held a number of roles including investment manager on the emerging markets team. Bruce graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Strathclyde and completed a graduate training course with General Electric Company UK.

David Stevenson
David Stevenson
Investment Columnist
Financial Times


David Stevenson writes an investment column for the weekend edition of the Financial Times. His Adventurous Investor column looks at everything from momentum based investment strategies through to investing in frontier markets. David is also a columnist for the Investors Chronicle in the UK and has previously written on investment for Citywire and the Independent. An economist by training, he started at the EIU and then moved to the BBC, where he was chief financial investigative reporter for programmes as varied as The Money Programme and Panorama.


Taking Stock
ROUND TABLE

For this edition of Taking Stock, the panel discuss the stock market turbulence of the last few weeks and explore the role of dividend growth during such times. The discussion was chaired by David Stevenson of the Financial Times who was joined by investment experts from Aberdeen Asset Management, J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Alliance Trust.



Roundtable

This roundtable discussion took place on 12 August 2011. All information was correct at that time but please keep in mind the following information:

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