What our three new stocks tell us about UK smaller companies: The Henderson Smaller Companies Trust
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The Bankers Investment Trust PLC
Portfolio Manager
Alex Crooke, ASIP
Portfolio Manager
Alex Crooke is a Portfolio Manager on the Global Equity Income Team, a position he has held since 2018. He served as Head of Equities – EMEA and Asia Pacific from 2018 to 2023. Previously, he was head of Global Equity Income and Specialist Equities Teams from 2013 to 2018. Alex was recruited by Henderson to co-manage the UK assets of an investment trust in 1994 as an associate director. He later became a fund manager responsible for a number of UK and global income-oriented equity products. Alex began his investment career with Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1990 as a US investment analyst.
Alex holds a BSc degree (Hons) in physics and astrophysics from Manchester University. He is an associate member of the Society of Investment Professionals (ASIP) and has 34 years of financial industry experience.