Ed Smith

Mr. Edward F.
Smith, CFA, is a Co-Chief Investment Officer at Rathbones Investment Management Ltd.
Alongside Ms. Savage, he has joint responsibility for Rathbones’ research department, the evolution and performance of its investment process, and its responsible investment philosophy.
Day-to-day, he focuses on asset allocation and macroeconomic research, risk analytics, fixed income and currency, business development and external communications.
He is the Chair of the Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, co-Chair of the Sector Selection and Portfolio Construction Committees, and a founding member of the Responsible Investment Committee.
Prior to this appointment he was Rathbones’ Head of Asset Allocation Research.
He joined Rathbones in 2014 from Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management, where he was global strategist and co-lead manager of their Risk Enhanced Multi-Asset Portfolio service.
He began his career at Blackrock.
He is a published expert on risk management for high net worth individuals, and is a member of the Society of Professional Economists.
He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has served on the continuing education committee of CFA UK, for whom he has also helped write position papers, most recently Chairing the working group on the future of Corporate Financial Reporting.
He has an MA from the University of Oxford and an MSc with distinction in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).