Aberdeen CIO on how to prepare for a Grexit

BIG INTERVIEW

Katie Holliday talks to Anne Richards about her route to becoming one of the industry's most high-profile female CIOs, and discusses her outlook for today's volatile markets.

Anne Richards’ career path to become chief investment officer of Aberdeen Asset Management was something of a “road to Damascus”. Originally studying electronics and engineering, she was first drawn to the “constantly changing kaleidoscope of financial markets” while studying for her MBA. But her route to fund management was almost accidental. “When you are outside the City looking in, it is not obvious sometimes what all these different bits of the financial sector do. You would not get any graduate applicants now being as ignorant as I was. I did not even understand the difference be...