Edmund Harriss
Chief Investment Officer
Responsibilities
Edmund is Head of Asian and Emerging Market Investments, serves as a Director on the Board of Guinness Global Investors and is Chief Investment Officer. He has managed the Guinness Best of Asia strategy since 2003 and the Guinness Asian Equity Income strategy since its inception in 2006.
Background
Before joining Guinness at its founding in 2003, Edmund worked for 10 years from 1993 for Guinness Flight, which was acquired by Investec in 1998. After joining the Far East Investment Desk in 1994, he served on the investment team managing the China & Hong Kong Fund (now the Guinness Atkinson China & Hong Kong Fund for US investors). He moved to Hong Kong and became the Fund’s lead manager in 1998.
He is an Associate of the Society of Investment Professionals. Edmund graduated from Christ Church, University of Oxford, with a Master’s degree in Management Studies and has a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of York.
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