Talking with… Polar Capital's Ben Rogoff

Continuing Square Mile’s series of informal interviews

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Polar Capital fund manager Ben Rogoff talks artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, FANGs and being lucky with Richard Romer-Lee

How did you get into fund management? I started in the industry as an intern at stockbroker Shore Capital, where I worked for two weeks before two effervescent gentlemen persuaded me to join Dean Witter. I wanted a job where I could have a different day every day - and it appealed as I am a big fan of learning. In fact, found myself on the tube this morning pouring through research emails thinking it is funny that, 20 years on, I am still doing the same stuff - looking for nuggets of information … something that allows you to build a thesis that others haven't formed yet. Anyway, th...

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