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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedInterview: Witan's Robert Clarke and Mark Lynam.
Investment Adviser, June, 2009
Byline: Stephen Wilmot
Witan chief executive Robert Clarke and chief investment officer Mark Lynam talk to Stephen Wilmot about the investment trust's past and its strategy for the future
Witan's address on Queen Anne's Gate, an elegant period terrace nestled between the houses of Parliament and St James's Park, led me to expect the opulence of a Mayfair hedge fund boutique. In fact, the century-old, GBP1bn investment trust is housed in low-ceilinged upper-floor rooms conspicuously free of the luxurious trappings many fund managers like to flaunt to clients and journalists.
The restrained look is no doubt deliberate. Witan, after all, runs two public companies for the explicit benefit of its investors-cum-shareholders. The managers know...
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