AYRES, Alan (Emerging Markets Equity Product Manager – Schroders)

* Product Manager for Emerging Market Equities, based in London
* Product Manager for Japanese and Pan Pacific Equities until 2006. Transferred to the investment management division following the sale of our investment banking business in 2000.
* Assumed responsibility for the Asian Equity division in 1998.
* Joined Schroder Securities in May 1995 and transferred to Hong Kong in 1996 as Head of the Office and Hong Kong Product
* Joined Merrill Lynch in 1988 as an institutional salesman for the Japanese, and later Asian, equity business. Investment career commenced in 1983 upon joining the Co-Operative Insurance Society as a fund manager
* MSc in Applied Statistics, Oxford University. BSc in Maths & Economics, Warwick University