Managers to Watch: 7IM's Kumar on lessons from Brexit and the importance of the CFA qualification

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Seven Investment Management's Ben Kumar talks to Jayna Rana about entering the world of finance, becoming a fund manager, and the most challenging period of his career so far.

Like most students, Ben Kumar did not know what he wanted to do after university. Fortunately for him, having known Tom Sheridan, CEO and co-founder at 7IM, he was able to gain work experience at the company to determine whether a career in finance would be right for him. "I had no idea what anyone in the financial world did apart from what you see in articles or on the TV. That was in 2008 and I did not even know there was a financial crisis occurring because I was in my student bubble," he said. "But chatting to some of the team and learning about what they did during that summer wa...