The Big Interview: Edward Bonham Carter

Jupiter's Edward Bonham Carter, is an engaging character whose liberal use of metaphors to describe the rigours of running one of the top three retail fund houses in the UK is both entertaining and alarmingly accurate

He issues rowing oars – metaphorically speaking – to staff and likens the credit crunch to a cross between surviving an earthquake and Custer’s last stand, has no regrets about ‘doing a Wogan’ and has a bond bench to be proud of. But there is no denying that Jupiter Asset Management’s chief executive, Edward Bonham Carter, is an engaging character whose liberal use of metaphors to describe the rigours of running one of the top three retail fund houses in the UK is both entertaining and alarmingly accurate. Founded over 20 years ago by John Duffield, Jupiter was bought by Commerzbank i...