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Salford Advertiser
Friday 18 June 2010
Star of the financial markets Stanley Fink, popularly known in the City as ‘the godfather of the UK hedge fund industry’, will give the annual Hugh Oldham lecture at The Manchester Grammar School.
Over the last two decades Stanley has been instrumental in transforming the MAN Group, from an agricultural commodity trading business, with small operations in future broking, to become the largest quoted hedge fund manager in the world, with a stock market capitalisation of US$20 billion and managing alternative assets of US$80 billion.
A former MGS pupil who was raised in Salford, Stanley went up to Cambridge to study Law subsequently training as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen.
Since retiring as CEO of MAN, in 2008 Stanley joined ISAM (International Standard Asset Management), a new hedge fund group, as CEO and is also Chairman of Earth Capital Partners LLP, an environmental fund management firm.
A committed philanthropist, Stanley is Chairman of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Chairman of the 2009 Lord Mayor’s Appeal.
He was also chairman of the successful campaign by the Evelina Children’s Hospital Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital and is currently co-treasurer of the Conservative Party.
The Hugh Oldham Lecture was introduced in 2005 by MGS High Master, Dr Christopher Ray to enrich sixth form students not only from MGS, but from as many local schools and colleges in the area as possible.
Each year around 500 students, teaching staff and members of the public attend the Lecture, named after the School’s founder in 1515, to hear such eminent speakers as the Astronomer Royal, Professor Sir Martin Rees; television historian Michael Wood; British evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins; fertility expert Professor Lord Robert Winston and last year former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd of Westwell.
The event on Monday, 5 July, begins for students at 2:15 pm with a selection of seminars with Stanley Fink’s one-hour public Lecture starting at 5:30 pm.
It is a free ticketed event, open to the public; please email MGS Director of Public Relations, Sally-Anne Rogers, if you wish to reserve seats.
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