Meet the Investment Influencers: TD Direct's Michelle McGrade

Our regular video series continues

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The fund selection and fund research markets are a major part of the multi-trillion pound investment industry but who are the key players within it?

In the latest of our series of video interviews with the most respected individuals who select funds, decide ratings or otherwise influence the allocation of investor fund flows, we meet Michelle McGrade, chief investment officer at TD Direct Investing. In this role, McGrade - who since the mid-1990s has specialised in manager selection and portfolio management, researching managers with different disciplines across the globe and blending them into portfolios to meet client objectives - is responsible for developing the retail investment advisory proposition for TD Direct Investing in th...

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