Pease acknowledges Duffield influence

Henderson's Richard Pease has named New Star founder John Duffield as the person who has had the greatest influence on his career.

The respected investor, who is director of European equities at Henderson, began his long association with Duffield in 1989 when he joined Jupiter to run European portfolios. In 2001 he helped Duffield set up New Star Asset Management and managed the New Star European OEIC. Speaking exclusively to Investment Week after he scooped the coveted Outstanding Investor Honour award for 2012 at this year's Morningstar OBSR awards, Pease said the entrepreneurial environment Duffield fostered pushed him to excel at running money. “Duffield was my old boss, I worked for him for a long time,” h...