“It is hard to identify one highlight but being able to build up a track record of delivering consistent incremental outperformance throughout my career has to be a cumulative highlight.”


Name:


Jayne Styles


Company: Amlin Job:


Chief investment officer and member of the management committee


Timeline: 2002—Chief investment officer, Amlin


Jayne Styles is Amlin’s chief investment officer and a member of the Amlin Management Committee as well as a supervisory board non-executive director of Amlin Europe. She directs investment


strategy for the £4.25 billion-plus funds under


management, which are run globally on a multi-asset, multi- manager basis. She joined Amlin in 2002 and since then investments have contributed a third of the Group’s profits and have outperformed the competition by more than 1 percent per annum. Prior to joining Amlin, Styles worked as an independent management consultant advising a number of blue


chip


companies, while completing an Executive MBA at Cranfield University School of Management. She was previously head of international equities at Halifax Fund Management , where she established and ran a wide range of international portfolios. Styles is a member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, as well as a qualified executive coach.


What has been the highlight of your career so far? It is hard to identify one highlight but being able to build up a track record of delivering consistent incremental outperformance throughout my career has to be a cumulative highlight ... but you’re still only as good as your next results.


What has been the biggest challenge you have


encountered? Being a contrarian can be challenging at times, such as reducing risk when others are adding and chasing returns or having the courage to buy things that others are selling, such as credit in Q1


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What are your career aspirations now? Encouraged by the Amlin Board, I am currently looking for a non-executive directorship to broaden my experience for the future benefit of Amlin and myself.


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2009 or Italian and Spanish sovereign debt in the second half of 2011. The reward/risk balance may look compelling but it still requires you to have the courage of your convictions.


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