In a financial career spanning nearly 40 years, Max spent over 30 as an investment manager. This included managing 10 investment trusts, of which 4 survive, and investing in a broad range of investment trusts, including alternatives, as a multi-asset manager at Investec Asset Management (now called Ninety One).He is a non-executive director of two trusts, having stepped down from a third in 2020, wrote about investment trusts for the Daily Telegraphs Money section on Saturdays for five years and has been a regular contributor to MoneyWeek since 2016, writing about trusts, funds and markets in general.