Managers To Watch: Jupiter's Harry Richards on thinking about the downside before the upside when investing

Part of fixed income team

For Jupiter's Harry Richards, the journey to a career in asset management started with a degree in chemistry, and the scientific mindset he developed during that time has helped him with his role in fixed income.

Since joining Jupiter's fixed income team in 2013, Richards said his ability to keep an open mind, as with a scientific experiment, has helped him build his investment skills. "Having a hypothesis and trying to prove it right or wrong and taking an objective view, is something I think is valuable," he said. "With science, you don't know the answer when you set out, and it can be the same with investment." Investment was not an area Richards had set his heart on from an early age - he was not "one of those people investing in their first share aged ten" - but the industry began to fasc...