AXA Framlington Managed Balanced R Acc

Jamie Hooper has been in the investment field for over 15 years. He started his career working for Barclays Plc where he was a senior corporate advances analyst. After eight years with the company he joined F&C where he started working as a pan-european financial companies analyst and later started to work on UK equity portfolios. Jamie joined AXA Framlington in 2006 where he works as a fund manager. Jamie is an Associate of the UK Society of Investment Professionals and of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Richard Peirson has over 25 years' experience as a fund manager and he follows AXA Framlington's investment philosophy, which focuses on companies which offer growth at a reasonable price. He assesses a company's growth prospects by analysing the quality of its management, its financial position, the industry in which it operates and its competitive position. He applies this to his AXA Framlington Financial fund. Born in 1949 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Peirson went on to gain a BSc in Computational and Statistical Science from Liverpool University. He started out his career as a computer consultant for Arthur Andersen and moved into money management with stockbrokers Grieveson Grant in 1982. His contract was renewed by Kleinwort Benson in 1986 after its acquisition of Grieveson Grant and he spent eight years with the group before he was snapped up AXA Framlington.