Management

 Alistair Mawdsley, Managing Director (Connaught Asset Management)
DDI: 020 8971 9727  alistair.mawdsley@connaughtam.com

Alistair joined Connaught Asset Management as Sales Director in March 2007 from Scottish Provident International (SPILA) , which at the time was a subsidiary of Santander Bank.  He helped to re-launch SPILA back into the UK in 2005 , securing new business sales of in excess of £100m in his final year.
Alistair has an extremely successful sales track record and brings to the team over 20 years experience of the Intermediary sales marketplace in the UK ,as well as having valuable knowledge of the Offshore marke. Prior to joining SPILA he worked for a variety of well known organisations such as Royal & Sun Alliance, Flemings Save & Prosper and he started his career at Friends Provident.
Alistair is committed to establishing and building Connaught’s long term relationships within the UK and Channel Islands, with the leading intermediaries and institutions.

 

  Matt Bedding, Managing Director (Connaught Administration Services)

DDI: 020 8971 9724 matt.bedding@connaughtam.com

Matt is responsible for the operation of Connaught Asset Management and its subsidiary companies.
Since 1990 Matt has worked with some of the highest profile investment houses and financial services companies in London.  Prior to joining Connaught he was Business Development Director for Capita Financial Group's specialist funds business, specialising in onshore/offshore real estate and private equity structures. 
Previously he was at Merrill Lynch where he was responsible for client services and operations in London and Dublin for their largest and most profitable brokerage office outside of the United States.  He has held senior relationship management and operational management positions at RBC Dexia Investor Services, Gartmore Investment Management, Barclays Global Investors and Legal and General Investment Management.  He started his career at Royal Bank of Scotland Trustees.

 

  Mike Davies, Chairman
DDI: 020 8971 9723 mike.davies@connaughtam.com
 

 

Mike has managed compliance functions at a senior management level, since the introduction of the Financial Services Act 1986 in 1988, in a variety of firms in the UK retail financial services market, including an IFA, a large regional building society and the UK group subsidiaries of the Bank of Ireland.
Prior to becoming the Chairman of Connaught Asset Management, Mike was Head of Compliance for a joint venture between the Bank of Ireland and Post Office Limited, the setting up of which culminated in Post Office Limited and branches becoming an appointed representative of Bristol & West plc, a Bank of Ireland UK regulated subsidiary company. His particular specialisms are financial promotions, training & competence and senior management systems and controls.
Mike is a frequent speaker at compliance conferences, particularly with regard to financial promotions. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and an Associate Member of the Compliance Institute.

Chris Taylor, Deputy Chairman

For the last 20 years Chris has worked in compliance in senior roles within the banking and asset management industry, culminating in being appointed as the joint Deputy Head of Group Compliance for the global NatWest Group, and more latterly has worked within Swiss Private Banking and Consultancy.
He has travelled abroad extensively to conduct compliance reviews in overseas subsidiaries and to provide guidance and support. As a result of earlier involvement with human resource management, he continues to take a close interest in staff training and development.
He is Chairman of an independent discussion group of asset management compliance professionals, Deputy Chairman of the Securities and Investment Institute Compliance Forum and a member of the SII Integrity and Ethics Committee where he has been asked to project manage the production of a book on ethics within the financial services industry.
He is a frequent speaker and Chairperson at Compliance conferences and has had several articles published in learned magazines. In addition to his role at Connaught Asset Management, Chris is involved in part time advisory roles with several other financial institutions as well as being a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Guild of International Bankers,
He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a Fellow of both the Securities and Investment Institute and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.