Managers to Watch: Sanlam FOUR's Lorenzo Dicorrado on how the greatest damage can be done by being single-minded

Laura Dew
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Multi-manager turned stockpicker Lorenzo Dicorrado is a fund manager at Sanlam FOUR on the £69m Global Equity and £113m Stable Global Equity funds.

Switching from a multi-manager career to one focused on stockpicking has been among the biggest challenges for Sanlam FOUR manager Lorenzo Dicorrado.  Having started in the asset management industry in an investment analyst role at SEI Investments, an academically-driven multi-manager firm, he later realised that rather than picking other people's funds, he wanted to manage money himself.  "I was in a privileged position in my role as an investment analyst at SEI, and the job was very interesting for me as you got to see what a wide range of managers were doing. I learnt a lot during ...

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