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John Bearman, chief investment officer of Santander Asset Management talks to Helen Morrissey about the importance of building a strong team

What is your career to date? I have over 20 years experience in a variety of mainstream UK based financial institutions. I started off at Norwich Union on a graduate training scheme where I had an introduction to different types of assets. Then towards the end of the second year I got involved in UK life funds. From Norwich Union I went on to Sun Alliance predominantly as an analyst and then moved into fund management in the early 90s. I then did two years on the sales side and spent time at UBS as a high income specialist research analyst. I then came back to the buy side through Prudent...

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