Tim Russell joined Cazenove in 2003. He is Head equities with specific responsibility for UK equity construction and performance across the range of Management's UK institutional, charity, private clientis also manager of the Cazenove UK Growth & Income Fund (onshore), the Cazenove UK Equity Fund (offshore), the Cazenove UK Equity Absolute Return Fund and the Cazenove Leveraged UK Equity Fund. Tim joined from HSBC Asset Management (Europe) Ltd where he also had overall responsibility for UK equities and was manager of six of their funds valued at £2 billion, including the AAA rated HSBC UK Growth & Income Fund. Prior to HSBC, he held a similar position at Lazard Asset Management achieving a Fund Research rating across their entire range of UK funds. In 1997 Tim was awarded the Investment Week Income Fund Manager of the Year. Prior to joining Lazard in 1992, Tim was awarded the Roy Wright scholarship, sponsored by Rio Tinto plc, which enabled him to spend two years in industry in marketing, financial and strategic roles. He started his career in 1985 as a corporate finance executive with Merrill Lynch (Europe) before joining UBS Phillips & Drew as an institutional salesman. He graduated from Keble College, Oxford University with an MA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He is a Managing Director and has 25 years of investment experience.