Boutique Focus: How is Guinness AM preparing for the future?

BOUTIQUE FOCUS

After a series of fund launches in 2011 and a recent push into the UK retail market, Natalie Kenway asks chairman and CIO Tim Guinness what we can expect from Guinness Asset Management over the next decade.

For a fund manager who began his career in finance in the 1970s, Tim Guinness shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, he is more ambitious than ever, with plans to quadruple the size of his business, Guinness Asset Management.  The company has £500m in assets under management across its fund range available to US and UK investors. But after a series of launches last year and a push in the UK retail market in 2012, Guinness hopes to top the £2bn mark over the next five years. “The world is our oyster. It is a crowded space in the asset management industry and to get attention you n...