Talking with … Artemis's Derek Stuart

Continuing Square Mile’s series of informal interviews

Derek Stuart, fund manager and co-founder at Artemis, talks with Richard Romer-Lee about disruptive technology, value traps and his fear of letting the side down.

How did you get into  fund management? At school, I enjoyed economics and history - I know,  it's a bit sad. I did an economics degree and in my fourth year my father suggested a job in finance. I looked at a variety of roles - corporate finance, trading, fund management. Fund management offered the complete package of company analysis but also of creating the portfolio to generate the returns. I looked at three companies  - Ivory & Sime and Baillie Gifford, which were premier firms in Edinburgh, and Mercury, the best in London. I took the job with Ivory & Sime. After more than 25 year...