Welcome to the Man Group UK Investment Summit 2025

Lee is a Managing Director and Head of UK Retail Sales at Man Group, responsible for existing client relationships, as well as expanding Man Group’s presence in the retail sector.

Lee joined Man Group in 2024 from AllianceBernstein, where he spent seven years as Head of Retail for the UK and Ireland. He previously worked at Aberdeen Standard Investments, where he was Senior Business Development Manager – Discretionary. Earlier in his career, Lee held distribution roles at Liontrust Asset Management, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Dr Sophie Bostock is a Sleep Evangelist on a mission: to help millions of people to improve their lives by unlocking the science of sleep and performance. Sophie studied Medicine and Entrepreneurship before completing a PhD in Psychobiology at UCL, where she became fascinated by the power of sleep for enhancing health and performance. Following several years with digital medicine company, Sleepio, Sophie launched TheSleepScientist.com to provide performance training and coaching for clients in business, the military and elite sport. Sophie regularly features as a media sleep expert on TV and in print, and has been invited to deliver talks for TEDx and Talks@Google. She is an advisor to The Sleep Charity. Sophie continues to experiment with her own sleep and performance. In 2021, she rowed around Britain to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation. In 2022, she paddled 2000km from Canada to Alaska. In 2023, she represented GBR in the Outrigger Canoe World Championships in Samoa. In 2026, Sophie will attempt to row across the Atlantic solo.

Henry Neville is a multi-asset portfolio manager, Solutions at Man Group.

Prior to joining Man Group in 2016, Henry completed the graduate program at Hoares Bank. Henry writes The Road Ahead, a regular series of macroeconomic commentary, published on Man Institute. He is also the co-author of The Best Strategies for Inflationary Times, winner of the prestigious 2022 Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Best Article Award.

Henry studied History and Economics at St. Andrew’s University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Mike Scott is Head of Global High Yield & Credit Opportunities within Discretionary at Man Group. In his role, Mike manages a suite of high yield strategies ranging from daily dealing to less liquid absolute and total return strategies. He focuses across performing, stressed and distressed opportunities. Mike joined Man Group in December 2018 from Schroders, where he worked as a fund manager covering UK and European credit. He began his career at Cazenove Capital Management in 2005 as an industrials credit analyst covering investment grade and high yield. Mike graduated from Oxford University and is a CFA charterholder.

Jonathan Golan is a partner and portfolio manager within Discretionary at Man Group, focusing on corporate bond and dynamic credit strategies. Prior to joining Man Group in July 2021, Jonathan was a fund manager at Schroders. He joined Schroders in 2013. Jonathan has an MSc in Financial Economics from Oxford University and a BA in Economics from The Hebrew University.

Sriram Reddy is a Managing Director and Head of Client Portfolio Management within Discretionary at Man Group. He is responsible for product strategy, investor engagement, and client communications across Discretionary investment strategies covering equities, public credit and private credit. Sriram is also a member of the Discretionary management team. Prior to joining Man Group in 2022, Sriram was a Credit Investment Director at Schroders. Before that, Sriram spent more than 12 years at BlackRock across multiple roles including as an Investment Strategist within the BlackRock Investment Institute and as a Senior Product Strategist within the global fixed income platform. Sriram holds a BA in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Andrew Swan is Head of Asia (ex-Japan) Equities at Man Group. Based in Australia, he focuses on Asia ex-Japan strategies. Andrew joined Man GLG in August 2020. Before that, he was at Blackrock for nine years where he held the titles of Head of Fundamental Asian Equities and Head of Fundamental Emerging Markets. Prior to that, Andrew was a portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management between 2005 and 2011 and the Head of Asia Pacific Media and Internet Research at J.P. Morgan between 2002 and 2004. He started his career as a research analyst at Ord Minnett Securities in 1994. Andrews holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Accounting and Finance) from the University of New South Wales.

Edward (‘Ed’) Cole is Head of Multi-Strategy Equities within Solutions at Man Group, where he is responsible for equity content in multi-strategy funds and institutional solutions. He is a member of the Solutions’ Investment Committee in this capacity.

He was formerly Managing Director of Discretionary Investments, where he oversaw the multi-manager equity hedge fund platform. He was also a member of the Discretionary Management Committee. Ed previously focused on emerging markets, as an equity strategist at JPMorgan, and latterly as a portfolio manager overseeing long only, long-short and multi-asset strategies.

Ed has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol, and a master’s in Development Economics from the London School of Economics.

Emily Badger is a Portfolio Manager in the Japan CoreAlpha team. She is the co-manager of the Strategy and deputy to Jeff Atherton in terms of the investment management of the JCA funds, and as such she works closely with him in the day-to-day portfolio management of the JCA strategy, including portfolio construction and risk management. Emily in addition has research responsibility for a number of domestic sectors such as real estate, telecoms, retail, construction and transport, as well as Pharmaceuticals. She has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of York and is a CFA Charter holder, and also achieved the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing. Emily joined the JCA team in August 2015, and has 8 years of investment experience in Japan.

Henry Dixon is a Portfolio Manager in the UK Equities team at Man Group. Prior to joining Man Group in 2013, Henry was a Portfolio Manager and Founder of Matterley where he ran their flagship fund of the same strategy. Prior to that he worked at New Star, and The Family Charities Ethical Trust. Henry has over 15 years' experience in equity investment management.

James Houlden is a portfolio manager at Man Group, focusing on UK equities.

James joined Man GLG in 2017 from UBS, where he had worked for four years. At UBS, James specialised in European small- and mid-cap equities.

James holds a First Class degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of Bath. He is also a CFA charterholder.