IW's 25th anniversary: Where are the rising stars of 1995 now?

Most successful managers take a trip down memory lane

Ellie Duncan looks back at the fund managers who were billed for great things in 1995 but were relatively unknown, and whether they have stuck it out in the industry.

It was the middle of a bull market, South Africa won the Rugby World Cup and there was a Conservative Party leadership election initiated by Prime Minister John Major, prompted by divisions within the party about the European Union. He was re-elected in July, comfortably beating eurosceptic John Redwood. It all sounds rather familiar, but this is not the noughties. The year was, in fact, 1995. Nothing much, it seems, changes. A headline from the 30 January 1995 issue of Investment Week reads 'World markets await Fed Reserve meeting', back when the central bank's chairman was Alan G...