IFSL YOU Multi Asset Blend Growth Class A - Accumulation (GBP)

Shane joined The Beaufort Group at its inception in 2012 and is Chief Investment Officer for Beaufort Investment and is responsible for communicating our investment strategy to all stakeholders, as well as overall responsibility for the investment team.Having joined Friends Provident in 1990, Shane held various roles within the industry before focusing purely on investments. More recently he has spearheaded the investment team, resulting in Beaufort Investment being recognised as finalists in Money Marketing's Discretionary Fund Manager of the Year 2019.Shane is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, is a member of the CFA UK Society and holds the Investment Management Certificate.

Cormac began his career in Financial Services in 2012 with an internship with Partners Capital. Prior to this he read Economics and Investment Analysis at Trinity College Dublin. He then spent a number of years working as an Analyst for SECOR Asset Management, an outsourced investment office for pension funds. At SECOR, Cormac gained experience in qualitative manager research and developed a quantitative skillset surrounding return decomposition and the creation of models. Before joining Beaufort Investment, he worked in Fintech for over a year. Cormac holds the Investment Management Certificate, level I of the CAIA and is studying for level II.

Chris joined the team as a Fund Manager in 2022. He possesses over 27 years of global manager research and multi-manager portfolio management experience. Most recently, Chris managed his own investments consulting firm, advising a $10bn+ Asian university endowment on their European public and private investments as well as sustainability focused strategies. Prior to this, Chris spend over 12 years as a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Connecticut based Alternative Investment Group LLC. There he founded their first overseas office and was responsible for leading investment strategy, external manager selection and portfolio management for hedge fund and public equity investments outside the U.S. From 1995 to 2007, Chris worked at UK Institutional investment consultant, Stamford Associates Limited, where he was Head of Investment Management Research, leading and developing the global manager research team advising multi-billion-pound UK pension funds and wealth managers. Chris graduated in Economics from the University of Southampton and holds the Investment Management Certificate.