Fund manager diary: Ben Preston

2025: The Year in Review

22 December 2025 2025 has been another busy year at the RAU - and this year has also been a very special one as we have been celebrating our 180th anniversary. The Royal Agricultural College was established back in 1845 as the very first agricultural college in the English-speaking world and, to celebrate our 180th anniversary, we held several special events including a series of six free professorial public lectures which were so successfu

Fund manager diary: Ben Preston

Monday The week always begins with an 8:30 am team meeting with all of the London-based members of the global investment team. This is an opportunity for all the analysts in the team to give their updates. That might be significant news that’s happened around their stocks in the last week, any changes in view that they might have or some small change or new information that they want to flag. This is a great way to start both the week, and a new…