Managers To Watch: S.W. Mitchell's Cullen on exploiting behavioural biases to find opportunities

When he was looking to join the investment management industry, Brian Cullen was keen to avoid being "pigeon-holed" at the very beginning of his career, as he was attracted to the opportunity to pick stocks across a wide variety of sectors.

He also wanted to avoid the investment banking route into the financial industry, fearing a focus on one or two individual sectors would cause him to develop "tunnel vision" in his skills as an analyst.   S.W. Mitchell attracted him with the opportunity to develop a "generalist" approach and learn to pick stocks across a broad variety of sectors.   "The skills I developed at S.W. Mitchell were spotting value and opportunity rather than understanding the ins and outs of a single industry and getting tunnel vision, which can happen if you are a sector specialist," Cullen said.   "One...