The Monks Investment Trust Plc
MNKS:LN
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Overview
Company Profile
Invests internationally to achieve long term capital growth, principally from an internationally diverse portfolio. Capital growth takes priority over income dividends.
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Sector Finance
Industry Asset Management Services
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Board of Directors
JGD Ferguson
Chairman
James Ferguson was appointed a Director in 2002 and became Chairman in 2005. He is chairman of Value & Income Trust plc, The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust Plc, The North American Income Trust PLC, Amati Global Investors Limited and Northern 3 VCT Plc. He is a director of The Independent Investment Trust PLC and Audax Properties PLC. He joined Stewart Ivory in 1970, becoming chairman and chief executive in 1989 and retiring in 2000. He is a former deputy chairman of the Association of Investment Companies.
Carol Ferguson
CC Ferguson
Carol Ferguson was appointed a Director in 2003. A qualified Chartered Accountant, she began her investment career with Ivory & Sime, an Edinburgh fund management group. Thereafter, she moved to Wood Mackenzie, stockbrokers, becoming a partner in 1984. Her most recent position was as Finance Director for Timney Fowler, a textiles company. She is chairman of BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust plc and Invesco Asia Trust plc and senior independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Vernalis plc. She is a director of Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust PLC, the Chartered Accountants Compensation Scheme and is a former chairman of the Association of Investment Companies.
EM Harley
Director
Edward Harley was appointed a Director in 2003. He joined Cazenove & Co in 1983, becoming a partner in 1994. He has considerable experience of overseas markets, having worked in New York and latterly with responsibility for the firm’s business in Latin America, S.E. Asia and Australia. He is currently a director at Cazenove Capital Management. He is involved with the charitable sector both as a trustee and as a member of investment committees and is chairman of the Acceptance in Lieu Panel.
DCP McDougall
Director
Douglas McDougall was appointed a Director in 1999 and is the Senior Independent Director. He is chairman of The Scottish Investment Trust plc, The Independent Investment Trust PLC and The European Investment Trust plc. He is a director of Herald Investment Trust plc and Pacific Horizon Investment Trust PLC. From 1969 to 1999 he was a partner in Baillie Gifford & Co and from 1989 to 1999 was joint senior partner and chief investment officer. He is a former chairman of the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation, the Fund Managers’ Association and the Association of Investment Companies.
KS Sternberg
Director
Karl Sternberg was appointed a Director in 2013. He worked for Morgan Grenfell Asset Management (owned by Deutsche Bank) from 1992 to 2005 in a variety of roles, ultimately as the chief investment officer of Deutsche Asset Management Limited. He left that role to establish Oxford Investment Partners, an where he was chief executive officer until 2013. He is chairman of JPMorgan Income & Growth Investment Trust PLC and is a director of Island House Investments LLP, Herald Investment Trust plc, Alliance Trust PLC, Lowland Investment Company PLC and Clipstone Logistics REIT plc
JJ Tigue
Director
Jeremy Tigue was appointed a Director on 30 September 2014 and became Chairman of the Audit Committee on 1 May 2015. Mr Tigue was fund manager of Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC from 1997 to June 2014. He is currently chairman of BACIT Limited (Battle Against Cancer Investment Trust) and is a director of Graphite Enterprise Trust PLC, The Mercantile Investment Trust plc and Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC. He was a director of the Association of Investment Companies from 2003 to 2013.