Mark Slater is a British fund manager, business writer and co-founder of Slater Investments. He is the son of the financier Jim Slater. Slater's father gave him money to invest when he was sixteen. He worked as a journalist for the ''

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''. In 1994, with Ralph Baber, he started a

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company, Slater Investments. In March 2016, Slater and Steve Rawlings made a successful bid to change the management at Lakehouse, a

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in which they had a substantial investment.

Recognition

In 2014, Slater was named "fund manager of the year" by

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In 2016 he was first on a list published by ''

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'' of UK fund managers who had achieved an average return of more than 10 per cent over ten years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Slater, Mark British business writers Living people Alumni of the University of Cambridge British money managers 1960 births