Selectors on Screen: Liontrust's Klempster on looking past 'short-term noise'

Deputy head of multi-asset

Katrina Lloyd
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James Klempster, deputy head of multi-asset at Liontrust, talks to Investment Week editor-in-chief Katrina Lloyd about his career and advice for newer fund selectors.

He highlights the benefits of having a mix of perspectives on the investment team and the advantages of being "specialist generalists".  Klempster also discusses the challenges and opportunities for investors trying to navigate an environment where fund managers are facing "very different prevailing winds than they are used to" and why a very painful 2022 has not broken the multi-asset model.  James Klempster is deputy head of multi-asset at Liontrust. He is a fund manager and analyst with 19 years' investment management experience, of which the past 14 have been focused on managing m...

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