Chris Samuel Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

After joining the Board in June 2016, I became Chairman in July 2017.A UK public investment company with some £525m Gross AUM (January 2018) investing primarily in smaller and mid-capitalisation companies in the UK.

London And Tokyo

After joining the Board in December 2014, I became Chairman of the Audit Committee in December 2016. I became Chairman in December 2018.The company is UK public investment company with some £930m of assets investing in Japan (Gross AUM; January 2018).

London, England, United Kingdom

I joined the QFP Board (April 2020) to take over as the QFP Chairman following regulatory approval (July 2020). I stepped down as QFP Chairman (while remaining on the Quilter Group and QFP Boards, and joining the Boards of a number of other Quilter subsidiaries) as part of governance changes across the Quilter Group to standardise and simplify Board memberships in August 2023.Established in 2006, Quilter Financial Planning (QFP) is one of Quilter PLC’s Business units which has grown to become one of the UK’s largest distributors of financial advice.QFP’s advisers are focused on providing advice and solutions for both individuals and businesses from wealth management and retirement planning advice through to dealing with property wealth and personal and business protection needs.

Bermuda

UIL Limited (formerly Utilico Investments Limited) is a Bermuda registered closed end investment company traded on the London Stock Exchange with assets of some £510m (Gross AUM; January 2018). Its investment objective is to maximise shareholder returns by identifying and investing in investments worldwide where the underlying value is not reflected in the market share price.

Dundee And Edinburgh

Alliance Trust plc is a UK public investment company with some £3.1bn of assets (Gross AUM; January 2018) that has been investing since 1888. The Trust aims to be a core holding for investors seeking increasing value over the long term. It manages its global equity portfolio using concentrated portfolios, containing only the manager's best investment ideas, run by best-in-class* fund managers at a competitive cost. Alliance Trust currently uses some eight managers from around the world (January 2018), many of which are not otherwise available to individual investors in the UK.*As rated by Willis Towers Watson

London, United Kingdom

Sarasin & Partners LLP is a London-based asset management group that manages some £14.5bn (January 2018) on behalf of charities, institutions, intermediaries, pension funds and private clients, from the UK and around the world. It is known both as a market leader in thematic investment and for long-term income and dividend management across multi-asset and equity mandates. Consistent with a longer-term approach, it is committed to ‘stewardship’ principles which embed environmental, social and governance considerations into the investment process.(Further information is available at www.sarasinandpartners.com)

Haddenham, Buckinghamshire

Defaqto is a provider of independent financial product and fund information/ratings designed to support both better financial decisions by consumers and greater effectiveness in the creation, management and distribution of financial products by providers.At the heart of the business is the UK’s largest retail financial product and fund database maintained by collecting data from across the market and using the expertise/insight of the firm’s analysts to make it comparable. From this data, Defaqto creates a range of products and services – ratings, software solutions, consultancy services, data services, publications and events.Further information is available at https://www.defaqto.com/about/

London, United Kingdom

Non Executive Director; Chair of Board Finance Committee and Investment Committee (later until March 2017).The London Community Foundation is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of London’s most disadvantaged. Child poverty, unemployment, isolation, homelessness, domestic violence and gang crime are just some of the issues we are tackling through our grant making. With the generosity and involvement of our donors, we have invested over £40 million into more than 5,000 charitable projects across the capital since we started in 1995.

London And Glasgow

UK Asset Manager with some £70n AUM

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Various Including New York, Tokyo, Toronto And London

London

Master'S Degree, Philosophy, Politics And Economics

Rowing : 1980 OUBC Lightweights Flying : University Air Squadron

High School