Talking with … LGIM's Justin Onuekwusi

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Legal & General Investment Management head of retail multi-asset funds Justin Onuekwusi talks diversity, artificial intelligence, football and a penchant for red ties, with Richard Romer-Lee

How did you get into the industry? At sixth form college - Holy Cross in Bury - I wanted to study double maths, politics and economics. But double maths lessons on Wednesday afternoons clashed with football. My teacher said if I played football, I would never be an actuary - I had to prove him wrong. I did single maths, played football and ended up as a trainee actuary at Aon. Within eight months, I moved from pension consulting - I hated it. I moved to investment consulting, looking at markets and doing manager research. From there I moved to Merrill Lynch, dropping the actuarial exam...

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