Talking with… Saracen's David Keir

Continuing Square Mile's series of informal interviews

Saracen Fund Managers head of research David Keir talks the fundamentals of stock analysis, the advantages of working in a small business and a seminal moment on a golf course, with Richard Romer-Lee.

What is your job? The great thing about working in a small company is everyone does a bit of everything. When I joined Saracen, I was head of research and then, in May 2014, I became co-fund manager of the Saracen Global Income & Growth fund. In January 2017, I became executive director of the business, so I guess I have three roles here. How did you get into the industry? I've always been good at maths and my interest in the stockmarket was spawned from buying penny shares as a child. We started as a family 'punting' these penny shares but we were awful at it and lost loads of mo...