Gareth spent five years at Shell UK Pension Fund where he was responsible for the management of non-Asian emerging market assets. Prior to this he spent over four years at Perpetual Plc as a portfolio manager covering Latin American equities. Gareth started his career at Premium Life Assurance in 1994. He has a BSc in Business Finance and Economics from the University of East Anglia and is a member of the CFA Society of the UK. Gareth joined F&C in 2006, and became part of the LGM team in late 2014. He took on responsibility for the F&C Latin American Equity strategy in March 2012.