Mark Slater (fund manager)

Mark Slater is a British fund manager, business writer and co-founder of Slater Investments. He is the son of the financier Jim Slater.^[1]

Mark Slater
Alma mater	Cambridge University[citation needed]
Occupations	Businessman, fund manager
Parent	Jim Slater (father)

Biography

When Mark Slater was sixteen his father gave him money to invest.^[2] He worked as a journalist for the Investors Chronicle.^[3] In 1994, with Ralph Baber, he started a fund management company, Slater Investments.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2016, Slater and Steve Rawlings made a successful bid to change the management at Lakehouse, a building contractor in which they had a substantial investment.^[4][5][6]

Recognition

In 2014, Slater was named "fund manager of the year" by City A.M.^[7]

In 2016 he was first on a list published by The Daily Telegraph of UK fund managers who had achieved an average return of more than 10 per cent over ten years.^[1]