Gary Channon co-founded Phoenix Asset Management Partners and has managed the Phoenix UK Fund since inception in 1998, as well as additional segregated accounts for pension funds. Gary’s investment approach is long-term, value-based and focused, ideally looking for great businesses run by managers who are competent, honest and who act in the interest of shareholders, companies with strong pricing power, generating an enduring high return on capital. Having identified great companies and good managements, he waits for the opportunity to invest in them at attractive prices.
Gary began his career in 1987 at Nikko Securities Europe in Fixed Income Trading, before joining Goldman Sachs in 1989 within Global Equity Derivative Products Trading. He then joined Nomura Europe in 1992 as Head of Equity Derivative Trading before ultimately becoming Nomura International’s Co-Head of Equity Trading. He lives and works in Barnes, South-West London.