WS Guinness Global Energy Class I - Accumulation (GBP)

Tim Guinness is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Guinness Asset Management and Guinness Atkinson Asset Management, our sister US business. He has over 35 years' investment experience. He founded Guinness Flight Global Asset Management Ltd in 1987 and was CEO (or joint CEO) from 1987 to 1999 and a portfolio manager of the Global Equity Fund. After Investec acquired Guinness Flight in 1998, he was Chairman of the company during the transition into Investec, as well as lead manager of the Investec Global Energy Fund. In 2003 he left Investec to set up Guinness Asset Management, which was appointed the outsource manager of Investec Global Energy Fund until 2008. Tim graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in engineering. He then completed a Master's Degree in Management Science at the Sloan School M.I.T. in the United States. Tim is co-manager of the Guinness Global Energy Fund and the Guinness Global Money Managers Fund.

Will Riley is co-manager of the Guinness Global Energy Fund and the Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund, and also co-manager fo the Guinness Global Money Managers Fund, having joined Guinness Asset Management in May 2007. Prior to joining Guinness, Will was employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers for 6 years, first in the London Middle Market Assurance Team, then as a valuation specialist in the Valuation & Strategy division. Will qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2003 and has an MA in Geography from Cambridge University.

Jonathan Waghorn joined Guinness Asset Management in September 2013 and is co-manager of Guinness Global Energy Fund and the Guinness Sustainable Energy Fund. Jonathan has 20 years' experience in the energy sector. He was a Shell drilling engineer in the Dutch North Sea and worked as an energy consultant with Wood Mackenzie before becoming co-head of Goldman Sachs energy equity research in 2000. He joined Investec as co-manager on the Investec Global Energy Fund in 2008 where he helped grow the energy franchise at Investec to a peak of nearly $3.5bn in 2011. Jonathan then joined Mercuria in 2012 to build an equities and fund management business based around the provision of external funds before joining Guinness Asset Management in 2013.