Prior to joining Man Investments in late 1994, Mr Chambers was head of OTC equity derivatives and director of new products at Daiwa Securities. He has been involved in investment banking and fund management for 30 years and has also worked for Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter Reynolds and Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Mr Chambers holds a master’s from Oxford University.

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