| Jonathan Compton | Managing Director |
- 28 years industry experience
- Founded Bedlam Asset Management in 2002
- Sorbonne - foreigner's degree
- Durham University - BA (Law)
- Qualified Barrister
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Jonathan worked 10 years as Managing Director at the investment bank Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) and was formerly a fund manager for twelve years. In 1981 Jonathan moved to Hong Kong to the joint venture fund management firm Henderson Baring where he established and/or managed a range of funds including a US mutual fund, mandates for pension funds investing globally, and a variety of state, corporate and other equity funds from the UK, US, Europe, the Gulf and Australia. He became Managing Director in 1986. Jonathan is a former Chairman of the HK Society of Investment Analysts and has awards from Lipper and Morningstar for his Global, Hong Kong, Singapore and US mutual funds. He also has earned Extel awards for research in a variety of countries. | |
| Ian McCallum | CIO |
- 16 years industry experience
- Co-founded Bedlam in 2002
- Chartered Accountant
- Heriot Watt University - BSc (Hons), Accountancy/
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Prior to joining Bedlam, Ian operated through several boom/bust cycles in various parts of the world, having worked for the investment bank CLSA both in Asia and in Europe, which included heading up their regional research office in Istanbul. He also worked as a regional analyst in Asia for Merrill Lynch before joining CLSA in the Far East. Prior to this he qualified as an accountant with Prudential UK, operating within their Corporate Strategy Department. | |
| Felicity Smith | Senior Research Analyst |
- 20 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2007
- Balliol College, Oxford -
modern languages
- Fluent in French and German
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Felicity has over 20 years experience as an analyst and value fund manager working extensively in markets throughout UK and Continental Europe. She joined Bedlam from Morgan Stanley where she was an investment director and managed the European equity desk. Previously she was the senior European portfolio manager at Investment Advisor
International from 1997-2001. Starting at ABN Amro in 1987, during the next 10 years she rose from sector research analyst to the Research Director in 1994. Her first experience was as a graduate trainee at Schroders in 1985. | |
| Richard Greenwood | Senior Research Analyst |
- 4 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2007
- Chartered Accountant
- Lincoln College, Oxford
- BA (Hons) in Classics
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Richard commenced work at Deloitte and Touche in 2003 where he specialized in tax cash flow modeling and due diligence reports for private equity M&A. His other experience includes academic instruction; from 1999-2003 Richard taught Classics, Latin and Greek at Wisbech Grammar School. | |
| Richard Norris | Research Analyst |
- 6 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2007
- Chartered Accountant
- Securities Institute of Australia, Master of Applied Finance
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Prior to joining Bedlam in October 2007, Richard was with Constellation Capital as an equity analyst for one year. Richard began his career at KPMG in 1995 before moving overseas to join Deloitte and Touche in Australia for seven years. At Deloitte and Touche he gained four years of experience in Corporate Finance. | |
| Andrew Duncan | Junior Research Analyst |
- 2 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2007
- Lancaster University, BSC
(Honors) Business Studies |
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Andrew joined Bedlam in 2007 on the operations side. He moved to the investment team in August 2008. From 2005-2007, he worked in investment management audit and assurance at Deloitte in London. He has an Investment Management Certificate and BSC (Honors) in Business Studies, Lancaster University. | |
The Finance, Operations, Compliance, Sales & Administration Team
| Michael Comras | Finance Director, Chief Compliance Officer |
- 17 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2006
- Chartered Accountant
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Prior to joining Bedlam, Michael worked as Finance Director in a number of small and medium sized companies as well as Group Financial Controller for British & Commonwealth Holdings plc, a fully listed (FTSE100) financial services conglomerate, taking it into administration in 1990 and then subsequently helping to run and sell off the residual businesses. Michael qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked at Coopers & Lybrand before moving into financial services. | |
| Tim Vaughan | Head of Operations, Risk Management |
- 10 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2004
- BA (Hons) Classics, Christ Church, Oxford
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Tim's first move into fund management was to Fidelity's European Risk team overseeing client trading services and operational risk management. Until that time Tim had worked as General Manager at Essential Oils Ltd, responsible for procurement, inventories and international sales. | |
| Lesley Cartmell | Director Global Client Services, Chairman of Bedlam Funds Plc |
- 21 years industry experience
- Co-founded Bedlam in 2002
- BSc (Hons) Economics, London School of Economics
- MBA - City University Business School
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Lesley was a founding director of Bedlam in 2002. She had 16 years experience as a fund manager and from 1996-2001 headed the Asian ex-Japan desk for United Friendly. While in that position she won several Micropal awards in the Unit Linked Life and Pension Fund categories in 1998, 1999 and 2000. At Clerical Medical, from 1992-1996, Lesley was head of the team managing unit trusts, life and pension funds, again covering Asia Pacific ex-Japan markets. Lesley taught Economics for six years (2 of them in Japan). | |
| Mark Stanley | Head of Sales and Client Relationships |
- 26 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2009
- BSc (Hons) Economics, University of Kent at Canterbury
- Fellow of Pensions Management Institute
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Prior to Bedlam, Mark was Director of Global Relationship Management for the UK at Wellington Management and had spells at JP Morgan and Threadneedle. Mark is a former NAPF Council member and currently sits on the NAPF Markets Committee. | |
| Robert Dann | Institutional Sales & Client Relationships |
- 5 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2005
- BBA (Hons) Business Administration, University of Kent at Canterbury
- Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese
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Rob first worked at Bedlam as an intern then joined full time after gaining his degree in Business Administration. Robert is also a Non-Exec Director of a London Wine Merchant. | |
| Caroline Pemberton | Office Manager |
- 13 years industry experience
- Joined Bedlam in 2007
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Caroline has 12 years experience working at Marathon Asset Management (London), the last 4 years spent in Connecticut running the US office. Prior to that Caroline spent 8 years at Coats Viyella Plc. | | |
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