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Lawrence Gosling, former editorial director of Investment Week Dear Editor, 'It's taken me 15 year...

Lawrence Gosling, former editorial director of Investment Week Dear Editor, 'It's taken me 15 years to become an overnight success,' is an expression used by football managers recently. The same might be said of fund managers and it was with some amusement that I read in your issue of 23 May how Aberdeen is trumpeting the average age of 25 for their Pan European equity team. Implicit in the comments of Yoon-Chou Chong, the head of UK equities, was that this youth was a positive - why? His argument was that over the last 12 years, there has only been one major market downturn, and as suc...