Balancing dual responsibilites

Investment Week talks to Robin Geffen and Edward Bonham Carter about how they combine their duties as CIO with those of running large retail funds

Chief investment officers who actively run UK retail money have become a select breed over the past few years, with those combining both roles now countable on one hand. One major reason for this is that CIOs increasingly have to deal with more management responsibilities, taking them away from their portfolios and leading many CIOs to take up more asset allocator roles rather than as stock pickers. This was highlighted last year when Mark Pignatelli gave up running the Schroder European fund to allow him to concentrate on a complete review of the group's investment process. However, g...