Stephen Jarislowsky - the Canadian Warren Buffett

Fund manager Stephen Jarislowsky is something of a conservative investor. So much so that the octogenarian is known in the markets as a Canadian Warren Buffett.

Fund manager Stephen Jarislowsky is something of a conservative investor. So much so that the octogenarian is known in the markets as a Canadian Warren Buffett.

Still, while his strategy may look unadventurous he's still got shares tucked away that he bought as a student in the 1940s few can quibble with his results: he has more than C$52bn (£25bn) under his management, is comfortably a billionaire in his own right and, within Canada, is a legend.

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She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.