Retiring: Richard BuxtonRichard Buxton is hanging up his hat for retirement after nearly four decades as Britain's top stock picker. Buxton, 59, is set to leave Jupiter Fund Management at the end of August, following chief Edward Bonham Carter, who quit the asset manager last year. The City veteran started his career in 1985 as an investment trainee at Brown Shipley before later joining Barings Asset Management and then Schroders. He later became the chief executive of Old Mutual Global Investors in 2015, where he drove a management buyout two years later. Buxton runs Jupiter's UK equities fund, the UK Alpha Fund, which will be handed over to Ed Meier and Errol Francis.

Source: Daily Mail June 02, 2023 20:52 UTC