Mark is the Portfolio Manager of a number of Milford funds in addition to responsibility for managing the Central Dealing Desk. Prior to joining Milford in November 2014, Mark spent 11 years with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong as an equity derivatives trader.
In Hong Kong he had responsibility for the Asia ex-Japan index derivatives business, running multiple regional derivative portfolios. Prior to that in London he ran a global equity derivatives portfolio in addition to a UK equity derivatives portfolio. Mark has a Masters of Engineering degree from the University of Bath, UK.
A purple patch
Milford’s Funds continue to deliver broadly positive returns, supported by performance of share and bond markets. Through all the noise, global share markets continue to march higher. Global bond markets are also delivering positive performance as central banks continue on their interest rate cutting cycles.
Global share market performance was boosted last month by […]
Nothing stops this train
Milford funds continue to deliver solid returns with gains across funds of all types last month. This was supported by an ongoing grind higher in global share markets, coming alongside broadly positive gains from bonds. Investors are increasingly sanguine about policy risks, whilst looking forward to an expected uptick in economic growth […]
It’s better to travel than arrive
Global share markets continued to take a cup half full view, pushing higher over the month and taking global share prices to new all-time highs. Coupled with ongoing solid returns from bonds, Milford’s funds delivered gains across the board.
Much of the rally in shares over the past three months is […]
It’s all about the TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”)
After a volatile April, global share markets continued their climb in May leaving global shares close to all-time highs. Milford’s funds delivered solid performance on the back of these moves with many of our holdings posting strong gains last month.
Investors are being whiplashed by US policy announcements. […]
Still tarrified, or just a bump in the night?
The volatility seen in markets over the past month suggests investors were surprised at the tariffs imposed by the US on imports and fearful of their impact on the economy and company earnings. The remarkably rapid and sizeable recovery in shares by the end of the month […]
Tarrified
In a volatile month Milford funds fared well, and although some of our fund returns were negative, we significantly outperformed underlying markets in our diversified funds. US share markets fell sharply as investors repriced expectations for growth this year amid policy uncertainty and headwinds.
Just three short months ago, investor expectations were of ongoing US outperformance, […]
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