Jim Trotter
has worked in the performance and risk industry
for over 20 years and joined Northern Trust in February
2005 to head up the Investment Risk and Analytical
Services team in London, looking after Northern’s
EMEA custody and outsourced client base taking performance
measurement, market risk and compliance monitoring
services.
Prior
to joining, Jim worked for Investit for two years-
a specialist consultancy firm, who work exclusively
with the investment management industry. At Investit,
Jim was the author of research papers in 2004 on
the outsourcing of performance measurement capabilities
from asset managers to third party sources and also
produced a number of leading Performance Measurement
& Risk surveys.
From 1998 to 2003 Jim worked at Merrill Lynch Investment
Managers (MLIM) in London, ending his tenure there
as the head of the performance and portfolio analysis
team from 2000 onwards. Prior to joining MLIM, Jim
worked for over ten years as a Client Manager for
the WM Company in Edinburgh, looking after client
relations with Investment Manager and Pension Trustee
clients of WM. Jim was also an IMA representative
on the NAPF UK Investment Performance Committee
(UKIPC) for Performance Standards and a member of
the IMA Investment Performance Working Group until
early 2003.
