Andy Marsh

"My interest in financial markets grew from reading the front of the Financial Times on my childhood paper round. A teacher later persuaded me to do a computer science degree, but I soon realised a career in IT wasn’t for me – so I switched to work and qualified as an accountant in Manchester. Stock taking on Saturday mornings at windy manufacturing plants in towns like Accrington was… character building.

With ‘perfect’ timing I moved to be a food retail analyst just as the dotcom bubble (2001) was ensuring that investors lacked any interest in the ‘old economy’ sector. Naturally, just as the bubble was about to burst, I moved to analysing tech companies although I managed to publish a note – Wot No Cashflow – just before the collapse, so my accountancy degree came in handy. These lessons in the vagaries of financial markets meant I was well suited to a move into fund management firstly on a long/short equity fund eventually joining Artemis in 2018.

I co-manage Artemis' UK income strategy with Adrian and Nick, where for the three of us the watch words are ‘patience’ and ‘long-term’ – all of which are ‘virtues’ which can be forgotten in markets increasingly driven by short-termism and algorithmic trading.  As a devoted football fan (Reading is my club) I believe a team is as good as its bench, so I lead on the Artemis mentoring scheme to develop the next generation of Artemis fund managers."