Liontrust's Cross and Fosh: A difficult environment separates the wheat from the chaff

Evolution of the Economic Advantage process

Natalie Kenway speaks to Anthony Cross and Julian Fosh about the evolution of their process, their best ever investments, and the challenges of a post-Brexit environment.

Liontrust's Economic Advantage team leaders Anthony Cross and Julian Fosh had no long-held desires to enter a career in fund management.  Cross decided he wanted a career in the City but specifically in corporate finance. After an unsuccessful interview, the interviewer "kindly" told him to think about fund management and following a much more successful interview at Schroders, his career began. "Whoever that chap was that interviewed me, I owe him a career in fund management," said Cross. For Fosh, his ambition was to become a lawyer but after completing two thirds of a law degree...