Charles Somers

Charles is a Portfolio Manager for the Global Alpha Plus strategy, Global Sustainable Growth strategy, and number of specialist institutional global equity portfolios. He also has global sector responsibility for consumer staples as one of the team’s Global Sector Specialists. Charles initially joined Schroders in 1998 as a research analyst on the US desk in London. In 2001 he was seconded to Schroders' New York office, where he covered healthcare and financial stocks. He returned to London in 2002 to join the Pan European research team, taking responsibility for the consumer staples sector. In 2006 Charles left Schroders to take a position as a portfolio manager at Intrinsic Value Investors, a long-only fund management company focused on European equities. He returned to Schroders in 2008 to take the position of Global Sector Specialist for consumer discretionary and consumer staples. Charles is a CFA Charterholder.