Speaker profile: Andrew Cole

Andrew joined Pictet Asset Management in 2014. He is head of the Multi Asset London team and has 39 years investment experience. Andrew started his career in 1979 working for Monatgu Loebl Stanley on the floor of the London Stock Exchange in the UK Gilt Market. Following two years as a UK Gilt Fund Manager at Barlow Clowes he joined the global fixed income department of Baring Asset Management in 1986. There he managed global fixed income portfolios for UK Pension funds, Sovereign Wealth funds and Central Banks. In 1996 he moved to the Multi Asset department gaining experience in the wider aspects of global asset allocation. Since 2001 he has managed Multi Asset portfolios with an absolute return objective. He was appointed head of Multi Asset London in 2017. Andrew sits on the Macro and Valuation research groups and is a voting member of the PSU, Pictet Asset Management’s senior investment committee responsible for setting asset allocation policy.