Managers To Watch: RLAM's Tapley on coping with market tail risks

Lessons from the financial crisis

Royal London Asset Management's (RLAM) Stephen Tapley, co-manager on the £280m Global High Yield Bond and £550m Short Duration Global High Yield Bond funds, discusses being given the opportunity to launch new products and trying to keep up with evolving markets.

Changing career paths after spending four years studying a specific trade can be daunting for some, but RLAM's Stephen Tapley, 33, said he was looking for a "new adventure" when he decided to take the leap from engineering to finance. Despite having a degree in mechatronic engineering under his belt, Tapley went on to gain a Masters in financial and industrial mathematics before moving from Dublin to London. He said: "Engineering is not dissimilar to financial markets - it involves the same sort of analysis and critical thinking, but my natural inclination was towards maths and proble...