Managers To Watch: Hawksmoor's Ben Conway on life beyond the City 'rat race'

In the first of our new series profiling the rising stars of the industry, we talk to former stockbroker Ben Conway, a senior fund manager at Exeter-based Hawksmoor Investment Management, where he co-manages the £69m Vanbrugh and £57m Distribution funds.

For Hawksmoor Investment Management's Ben Conway (pictured), 37, it was a deep-rooted desire to escape the City of London "rat race" that led him to take up a much-coveted role in the asset management industry.   Conway initially began his financial career as a stockbroker at Deutsche Bank following the completion of an economics degree at Trinity College, Cambridge. His focus was selling institutional Japanese equities; a job that suited him following his gap year teaching in Japan. It was a role he still had when he moved to another broking position at Merrill Lynch several years la...