Ken is head of global strategy, having previously been an investment director in the global strategy team and top-down strategy research manager. As chairman of SWIP's Policy Group, he is responsible for driving asset allocation strategy on multi-asset portfolios, and is lead manager of a number of macro absolute return funds. He is also in charge of SWIP's top-down research effort. Ken also co-manages SWIP’s Diversified Assets Fund. Ken has been with the group since 1987. For the first two years of his career he worked in the fixed interest team. He was then seconded to the London office of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Asset Management (DKA), the Japanese investment company, where for two years he led a team managing multi-asset absolute return portfolios. Ken spent the following seven years in its Tokyo office in a similar role, and in 1996 he was appointed client director in charge of the group's joint venture with DKA. On his return to Britain in 1999, Ken joined the global strategy team as an investment director and member of the global equity portfolio construction team. Ken holds a BSc in Zoology and Botany from Bristol University.