Managers To Watch: Carmignac's Park on seeing 'the forest for the trees' when analysing companies

Runs emerging market funds

After three years as a stockbroker, David Park explains how he made the move to asset management and became co-manager of the €1.3bn Carmignac Emergents and €388m Carmignac Portfolio Emerging Discovery funds.

Despite a successful career as a stockbroker covering Korean companies for European institutional investors at Hyundai Securities, when David Park, 37, was asked by one of his own clients to consider a career as an analyst at their firm, he jumped at the chance. "Stockbroking is an enticing role but I felt I could not give stock ideas without giving my own opinion on them. There was no real sense of responsibility," he said. "When I entered the asset management world, I discovered it was the complete opposite of this however, and that is what compelled me to stay on. "It is not just a...