Meet the Investment Influencers: Mattioli Woods' Ben Wattam and Ian Goodchild

Our regular video series continues

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In this week's video interview for Professional Adviser's Investment Influencers series, where we chat to the most respected individuals who select funds, decide ratings or otherwise influence the allocation of investor fund flows, we hear from Mattioli Woods investment managers Ben Wattam and Ian Goodchild.

Together the pair head up the firm's investment management team, who are responsible for investment research and portfolio management. Wattam graduated in economics with geography from Loughborough University and has worked in investment management since joining Mattioli Woods in 2004. A Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, he regularly presents at client seminars on a wide range of investment and economic topics. According to Goodchild, his aspirations to work in finance started at a young age - while his younger brother was pushing toy cars and lorries around, he had parked his ca...

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