World in Motion

David Dudding is a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. He joined the company as an equity research analyst in 1999 moving on to manage the European Smaller Companies strategy for 10 years until December 2012. He is currently responsible for the European Select and Global Focus strategies.

David previously worked for John Swire and Sons in Hong Kong and for Investors Chronicle as a financial journalist.

He holds a Modern History degree and a European Politics Masters degree from Oxford University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society of the UK.

Pauline Grange is a portfolio manager within the Global Equities team. She took up this role in 2007 and is currently lead portfolio manager of the Threadneedle Global Sustainable Outcomes and Threadneedle World Equity strategies and deputy portfolio manager of the Columbia Select Global Equity fund. She also heads the telecoms and utilities sector research team and is the deputy head of the technology sector research team.

Before joining the company, Pauline was a global equity portfolio manager for Investec Asset Management.

Pauline has a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Finance from the University of Cape Town. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Jonathan Crown is lead portfolio manager on the Global Equity Income Strategy and manages a number of pooled and institutional mandates including the Threadneedle Global Equity Income Fund. Jonathan joined the company in 2005 as an investment analyst on the credit team. In 2008, he moved from the Fixed Income team to the Global Equities team and has managed global equity portfolios since 2010 and global equity income portfolios since 2011. Jonathan is also deputy head of the financials sector research team. 

Before joining the company, he worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as an investment grade credit analyst covering financials. 

Jonathan has an MA (Hons) Degree in Economics from the University of St Andrews.

Scott Woods is a portfolio manager within the Global equities team and has been lead manager of the Threadneedle Global Smaller Companies strategy since April 2019. Scott joined the Global equities team in 2015 as an equity analyst with responsibility for researching small cap companies, focusing in particular on US small caps. He was subsequently made deputy portfolio manager on both the Threadneedle Global Smaller Companies strategy and the Threadneedle US Smaller Companies strategy.
 

Before joining the company, Scott spent three years with Ecclesiastical Investment Management, an SRI-focused asset manager, where he worked as an investment analyst within the global equities team.
 

Scott holds a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and the Investment Management Certificate.

Andrew Harvie is a Client Portfolio Manager within the Global Equities team. His role is to articulate the team’s investment views and capabilities to existing and prospective clients, consultants and intermediaries.

Andrew re-joined the company and the team in 2018 from Schroders where he was a client portfolio manager and head of product in the QEP investment team. He has previously worked as a client portfolio manager at Man AHL, Man Group’s quantitative investment division, having originally joined as an investment analyst in 2007. Andrew was also involved in due diligence and product strategy during Man’s acquisition of GLG Partners in 2010.

Prior to working in asset management, Andrew worked as an equity capital markets analyst at Bloomberg and started his career within wealth management.

Andrew holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics with Statistics from the University of Bristol.

Neil Robson is Head of Global Equities at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. He took up this role in July 2017. He joined the company in 2011 as a portfolio manager within the Global Equities team. He is the deputy manager of the Threadneedle Global Select Fund and manages a number of global equity mandates for institutional clients. He is also the co-manager of the Threadneedle Global Extended Alpha Fund.
 

Before joining the company, Neil worked as a fund manager at companies including Martin Currie, Barings and Citibank. In addition, he was Head of Global Equity at Pioneer Investments from 2003 to 2009.
 

Neil has an Economics degree from the University of Bristol.