Schroders CEO: Navigating industry shifts, family ownership and embracing risk

Mm. Hi everyone. Today we have the great pleasure of having Peter Harrison on the show. Peter is the CEO of Schroeder's one of the biggest asset managers in Europe. And amazingly, Schroeder's has been in business for nearly t or for roughly two hundred years. Peter, great to have you here. Thank you, great pleasure. It's also quite fun because Schroeder is one of the longest standing partners we have In the fund, in the Norwegian Summon Wealth Fund.

Um we have relationships going back to uh, you know, uh roughly twenty five years. Yeah, no, it's a great privilege to run money for you. Yeah, absolutely. So what's the um You know, um Only forty five out of one million companies

exist for a hundred years and you've been doing it for two hundred years. What's the Yeah. What's the trick? So I think the the key is committed ownership. We've got a family backing who takes a twenty year view of where we need to go. And and because of that, the the business has changed and evolved. And the family we've been in lots of different businesses in the finance sector throughout that time. But we've continued to change. And I think that's only possible if you've got a committed long term ownership structure which allows that change. If we do the last ten years, what are the biggest changes you've seen in investment management? Huge.

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