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Biography |
Michael is a director of LGP with specific responsibility for the Balanced Property Funds portfolio, including the L&G LPI Income Property Fund and the L&G Managed Property Fund. Michael established the authorised L&G Property Unit Trust in February 2006, and has an ongoing responsibility for the L&G UK Property Trust, which was awarded the Money Observer Best UK Property Fund in April 2009 for its performance over three years and a AAA rating by Citywire in 2009.
Michael joined LGP in 2005 having previously been a director of F&C Property Asset Management and lead fund manager for the RSA Life Unitised Fund and RSA Pension Unitised Fund. Over the last three calendar years of Michael’s management of these funds they outperformed the IPD benchmark by 2.0% and 1.1% per annum respectively. The Life Unitised Fund received the IPF/IPD/EG award for best three-year rolling performance (Funds between £50m and £200m) in 2002. He also established and managed the ISIS Property Trust and the ISIS Property Trust 2 which were listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Michael holds a degree in land economics, a postgraduate diploma in property investment and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and the Association of British Insurers Property Group. |