Bambos Hambi: I see my role as being the protector of the investment team

Quilter Investors CIO on life returning to his old haunt

Mike Sheen
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Bambos Hambi talks to Mike Sheen about his return to Quilter, his priorities as CIO and how Quilter Investors is positioning portfolios amid the economic recovery

"I actually like working from home, I'm not missing the commute at all," says CIO of Quilter Investors Bambos Hambi, reflecting on just over five months in his new role and citing pre-lockdown train trouble he was experiencing prior to the first UK lockdown in March 2020. "I was getting so frustrated with it."  The flip side to this is that Hambi has only met one colleague at Quilter without the aid of video conferencing technology - group CEO Paul Feeney, the majority of face-to-face contact with whom took place while interviewing for the role. "It is obviously a little bit odd to be...

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