Dickson to step down from Henderson fund

Ian Dickson, long-serving manager of the AAA-rated Henderson Preference and Bond fund, is to retire in July. Dickson has managed the fund since joining the group in 1981 and was the unit trust and Oeic industry's ninth longest serving fund manager at the start of last year, behind names like Nils Taube, Anthony Bolton and Hendersons colleagues John Botham and Michael Wood-Martin. John Pattullo, who joined Henderson in October 1997, has officially taken over the role as named manager of the £320m fund, which invests in a mixture of investment grade and sub-investment grade corporate ...