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Mark Latham

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Covers:  Private equity, venture capital, investment, asset management, finance, business, economy and travel.
Editor at @PrivateEquityN1. Ex-Sunday Herald, Sunday Times, Handelsblatt Global, Politico Europe. Occasional travel writer.

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Mark Latham’s Biography

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London-based multi-award-winning journalist with over 25 years experience who has worked in Berlin, Brussels, Glasgow and the Shetland Islands. I have worked as a general news reporter for local newspapers and as a business and financial correspondent and editor for a variety of daily and weekly national newspapers (The Sunday Times, Sunday Herald), magazines, news websites (Handelsblatt Global Edition) and various trade titles. I have also worked for a specialist title covering European Union…

Mark Latham’s Journalist Portfolio

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What's in a name... and what does FundForum's U-turn say about rebranding?

What's in a name... and what does FundForum's U-turn say about rebranding?

There is something cheering about FundForum, Europe's largest asset management conference, returning to its o…

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Eric Adler's balancing act at Legal & General

Eric Adler's balancing act at Legal & General

Just over a year into the role, L&G asset management chief Eric Adler shares an insight into his investment p…

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How Schroders built an £81bn private markets titan by avoiding the crowds

How Schroders built an £81bn private markets titan by avoiding the crowds

Georg Wunderlin, CEO of Schroders Capital, tells Mark Latham about the firm’s ascent to becoming Europe’s six…

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M&G's Joseph Pinto declares "Active is not dead"

M&G's Joseph Pinto declares "Active is not dead"

Despite the asset management industry continuing to haemorrhage investor cash to passive funds, the chief exe…

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Aviva Investors CEO Mark Versey on private markets and the future of asset management

Aviva Investors CEO Mark Versey on private markets and the future of asset management

In an exclusive interview for Funds Europe, the CEO of Aviva Investors Mark Versey, tells Mark Latham about t…

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Tokenisation: industry survey gauges the state of planning for digital assets

Tokenisation: industry survey gauges the state of planning for digital assets

Digital innovation is transforming asset management through tokenisation and blockchain

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The specialist in the middle: Aberdeen’s Xavier Meyer on staying relevant in a consolidating world

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By Mark Latham Verified
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There is a certain irony in the fact that Xavier Meyer, the chief executive of Aberdeen Investments, moved to London at least partially to escape the gravitational pull of Asia. After more than a decade building businesses across Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and various other cities east of Suez — first with BNP Paribas and then as chief executive of Eastspring Investments, the asset management arm of Prudential plc — he and his family had decided that it was time to come home to Europe.
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What’s in a name… and what does FundForum’s U-turn say about rebranding?

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By Mark Latham Verified
| Funds Europe Verified
There is something cheering about FundForum, Europe’s largest asset management conference, returning to its old name after an incomprehensible spell as IMPower. IMPower, apparently the name of a London-based consultancy and presumably a sponsor, perhaps suggested energy, but it didn’t catch on in the asset management community. Nobody in the industry ever asked colleagues whether they were going to IMPower that year, for example. In financial services, names are not just wrappers.
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Why twelve is the new five in private equity: Flexstone’s Eric Deram on building returns the hard way

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By Mark Latham Verified
| Funds Europe Verified
Private equity has long sold itself on a formula of financial engineering and the promise of outsized returns. But for Deram, chief executive and managing partner of Natixis’ private equity boutique Flexstone Partners, the old playbook has run out of steam. In its place comes a more demanding model: lower risk, deeper diversification and greater emphasis on operational growth.
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State Street UK Institutional Press Awards

2020 - Investor Services

Journalist of the Year

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CFA Society UK Financial Journalism Awards

2019 - Trade Journalist of the Year Award

The award from the association of finance industry professionals for the best submission from the specialist financial press.

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CFA Society UK Financial Journalism Awards

2018 - Best newcomer to financial journalism

The award from the CFA Society UK, the association of finance industry professionals, celebrates up-and-coming talent in financial journalism.

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Society of Editors (UK) Regional Press Awards

2015 - Business Journalist of the Year

shortlisted for award.

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Esso Award

2002 - Best report of a speech

Award for best report of a speech in the National Certificate Examination in newspaper journalism (National Council for the Training of Journalists NCTJ).

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