Job Title
Columnist

Company
​​​​​​​MoneyWeek

Bio
Max King is an economics graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and had a varied career in financial services, including over 30 years in investment management. For 10 years Mr King was the investment manager at Finsbury Asset Management where he was responsible for the investments of seven investment trusts. Subsequently he moved to J O Hambro Capital Management where he was director and investment manager of two investment trusts and a number of other portfolios. From 2004 until 2016, he worked at Investec Asset Management where he was the co-manager of various multi-asset funds invested in internal and external funds, including closed-ended funds. A Chartered Accountant, having trained at Peat, Marwick & Mitchell (now KPMG), he is currently a non-executive director of Ecofin Global Utilities & Infrastructure Trust plc and a former non-executive director of Henderson Opportunities Trust. He writes regularly for MoneyWeek as well as having a number of unpaid commitments, including the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Worshipful Company of Barbers.