Chris Broadhurst

Important Announcement re: Chris Broadhurst

Chris was the principal of Sceptre Investment Management Ltd. After a degree in Physics at Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School he joined the equity department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York in 1987. After transferring to London in 1988, he was responsible for selling equity derivatives to European and Middle Eastern institutions. In 1991 Chris joined Nomura International Plc. and started to build the equity derivatives department into a leading global operation. In 1998 he co-founded Phoenix Asset Management Partners and established the Phoenix UK Fund which returned over 14% pa in its first 6 years of existence and was rated 5 star by S&P Micropal. In 2001 he launched the Phoenix Hedge Fund, a Value based European long-short equity hedge fund, in its 3+ years of operation the fund returned almost 15% before fees. Chris left Phoenix Asset Management in September 2004 and founded Sceptre Investment Management in March 2005.

Luke Howard Taylor

Luke was a research analyst with Sceptre Investment Management. He graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Theoretical Physics and joined the firm shortly after it started in 2005. In his final year at Imperial Luke undertook research into the pricing models of equity derivatives, studying the mathematical validity of a number of stochastic volatility models against the Black-Scholes model. Luke previously worked for Citigroup as an analyst on the Leveraged Finance team in the London branch of the bank. After liquidating the Fund in September 2009, Luke joined Longview Partners, where he now continues to work as a research analyst.