Talking with … Schroders' Peter Harrison

How did you get into the industry? By accident. Like most graduates, I applied for a whole range of jobs. Management consultancy and going into the city seemed to pay well. I ended up at Schroders. I arrived on the graduate training programme and discovered I was part of a social experiment where the non-Oxbridge graduates were sent to asset management and the smart Oxbridge graduates were sent into the investment bank. How did your career unfold? I started as a geeky programmer, having done a business degree. When I became an analyst, I was given the first PC on the investment floor...