The world’s greatest investors, This week: Katie Potts

Katie Potts manages the Herald Investment Trust and the Herald Worldwide Fund, focusing on technology firms with enough market power to keep ahead of the opposition.

Who was she?

Katie Potts studied engineering at Oxford University, before working at the engineering firm GKN. Realising that British manufacturing was in decline, she moved into the City, getting a job at Baring Asset Management. In 1988 she became a research analyst at SG Warburg. In 1994 she left to found Herald Investment Management, and started the Herald Investment Trust, which she still runs. She is also lead manager for Herald's Worldwide Fund, which launched in 1998.

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Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

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