How I use ETFs: North Investment Partners' John Husselbee

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North Investment Partners' CEO John Husselbee talks to Clare Dickinson about how the company uses a mixture of passive products and active management to create returns

Tell me about North Investment Partners. We started North in the summer of 2005; when I say ‘we' that was myself and Rebecca Murphy. We had worked together at Henderson Global Investors and Rothschild, managing multi-manager [funds] for retail clients. I spent 10 years at Henderson's building their multi-manager range and previous to that at Rothschild's in a similar role. We felt that there was an opportunity (with multi-management in particular) to launch a company for ourselves and build a business for ourselves. We felt it became an established industry, an industry where we felt the...

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