Former Schroders UK equity star Jim Cox passes away

Jim Cox, the former head of UK equities at Schroders who mentored many UK equity managers over the last 30 years, has died.

Cox, who was in his early 60s, passed away on 21 November. He was described last week by former colleague Andy Brough, manager of the Schroder UK Mid-Cap, as a “legend”. Schroders commented: “Jim was an exceptionally good fund manager and a charming, warm man. Our thoughts are with his family at this time." It is a decade since Cox left Schroders, but in that time he built up the UK Enterprise fund to more than £1.4bn in assets at the end of the 1990s, when he and Fidelity’s Anthony Bolton were among the best known UK equity managers in the retail market. After retiring from Schrod...