Chris St John

Chris joined AXA Investment Managers in 2005 as a portfolio manager on the UK small cap desk, responsible for the management of a number of pension funds focused on UK small and mid cap companies. In February 2008 he was appointed Portfolio Manager of the UK Smaller Companies Fund. Previous to his appointment at AXA Investment Managers, Chris worked at ISIS (which later became Foreign & Colonial) where he progressed from equity analyst to lead fund manager on four institutional FTSE Small Cap funds. In 2003 he was promoted to lead fund manager of the UK Small Cap retail funds. Chris began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1995 as part of the London Middle Market Business Advisory Service. After a short period in the Corporate and International Tax department, he moved to Corporate Finance. Chris graduated from Durham University in 1995 with an honours degree in Philosophy and Psychology. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1998.