Talking with … Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust's Paul Niven

How did you get into the industry? My mum said I had an interest in money from a young age - I was entrepreneurial, wanting to make my own money by doing tasks for neighbours. I had a long-term interest in finance but I was not sure exactly what I wanted to do. I underwent a sort of psychometric test at school to give guidance on what to study at university and, although I knew nothing about it, my profile threw up investment analyst as number one. I therefore took a degree in Accounting and Economics, following which I was offered jobs in accounting but not in investment analysis, whi...