Talking with ... Henderson's Paul O'Connor

Victoria Hasler continues Square Mile's series of informal interviews

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Paul O'Connor, head of multi-asset at Henderson, talks with Victoria Hasler about lessons learned, the pleasure of instant feedback and generating ideas underwater

How did you get into fund management? It started with a stumble rather than a plan. I was studying genetics at university but I really didn't like it so I switched to economics, which I loved. From there I started to understand fund management and grew to love that too. It seemed like the obvious path to move from university to a career in the City but this was the late 80s and, after the crash of 1987, banks were not hiring. I went into management consultancy instead but moved to the City after six years or so. I was on the ‘sell' side at first but the switch to the ‘buy' side seemed ...

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