Active Investment Management

CHARLES JACKSON holds an MA from Oxford University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Harkness Fellow. He has 25 years experience in the investment management industry. For 13 years, he was the Head of the Fixed Interest and Currency Division of Mercury Asset Management, for most of the period the largest publicly quoted firm in Europe specialising exclusively in active investment management. He also served on Mercury's Asset Allocation Committee and Chairman's Committee. He was appointed a Vice Chairman of Mercury's Main Board in 1993. He is married, with two children, and lives near Oxford.