FYR072 Investing in Quality Businesses, Investor Red Flags and When to Cut | Rosemary Banyard

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Rosemary Banyard is an award-winning fund manager specialising in UK medium and smaller companies with over 30 years of experience in understanding business models, industry structures, barriers to entry, and risks, on both the buy and sell side. Rosemary started her career in 1979 at James Capel as a senior investment analyst where she spent 12 years. Rosemary then moved into fund management starting at AIB Govett asset management before moving on to Schroders where she spent almost 20 years running a smaller companies Fund with Andy Brough. In 2016 she joined Sanford DeLand to launch and manage the Free Spirit Fund. The Schroder UK Mid Cap trust returned 17%* p.a. while she was manager and in her two and a half years managing money at Sanford DeLand the Free Spirit Fund returned 31%. Rosemary joined Downing in March 2020 to launch the VT Downing Unique Opportunities Fund. Rosemary talks about her investing journey and how it has evolved over the years from investing in quality businesses to sharing some of her best investments and some not so good. Rosemary shares her guiding principles, Investor red flags to look out for in company accounts and of course much, much more.