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Article: INVESTMENT MATTERS: A life in funds.
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- Money Marketing
- Article date:
- October 9, 2008
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Kira Nickerson
Having started in the UK financial services industry in the late 1960s, Cofunds communications consultant Richard Eats retired last week and headed to New Zealand. Remembering the inflation-led difficulties of the 1970s, as well as the 1987 crash and its impact on the mood and atmosphere of the City, Eats talks about the evolution of the UK's retail funds industry.
Starting at Save & Prosper (now JP Morgan) in 1969, moving to Jessel Britannia (Invesco Perpetual) in the early 1970s, starting up his own firm Chieftan in the late 1970s (which went on to become Aberdeen) and heading up Henderson's unit trust business in the 1990s, Eats ...