Vigilant Financial Ltd was established by Giles Game, a fund manager with over ten years' City experience.
Giles began his investment career as a trainee at Prudential Portfolio Managers in 1998. He joined the fixed income desk a year later. By this time, Prudential's investment arm had adopted the name of the unit trust company its parent had just bought: M&G.
As an investment professional at M&G, Giles's track record encompassed the dotcom bust, Enron and other corporate frauds, the credit boom and the subsequent credit crisis.
By 2009 it was time for a change. Feeling that there were a number of investors who would have suffered through the financial crisis and who could benefit from expert help, Giles decided to leave M&G and take the regulatory qualifications necessary to establish a new investment advisory business.
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Giles E J Game, CFA
Professional
Mid-2000 to May 2009 (resigned): Fund Manager, M&G Investment Management, City
of London. One of a team of four fund
managers responsible for the c. £45bn of fixed income funds sourced by Prudential plc, M&G’s parent company.
- Autonomous responsibility for £19bn worth of Prudential fixed income funds at time of leaving, including M&G’s largest single fixed income client
- Managed money against a variety of investment grade sterling total return corporate bond benchmarks and liability cash flow profiles throughout career
- Experience of fund types ranging from simple cash mandates to multi-asset portfolios containing fixed, floating rate and index linked government and corporate bonds, high yield, structured credit, private debt (including project finance), commercial property and derivatives (futures, swaps, swaptions etc.)
- Ran multi-currency emerging market bond component of Prudential’s with profits life funds from 2002 until change of benchmark in 2006
- Responsible for portfolio cash management and currency hedging
- Strong contribution to wider business – economic research, technical work (e.g. default risk pricing model), participation in team-wide investment policy making
Dec 1999 to mid-2000: trainee fund manager, M&G Fixed Income.
Sep 1998 to Dec 1999: graduate trainee, Prudential Portfolio Managers (subsequently re branded following acquisition of M&G).
- Formal classroom training in accountancy, economics and asset valuation.
- Placements across PPM’s main business areas, including Equities, Property, Asset Allocation and Fixed Income.
Academic
2010: Certificate in Financial Planning
2001: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter
1999: Investment Management Certificate
1995 to 1998: Oxford University (Merton College)
- Graduated BA in History with first class honours.
- Postmastership (senior undergraduate scholarship) awarded in 1996.
- Prize for second-highest History first in University examinations, 1996.
1990 to 1995: Westminster School, London.
- Three As at A-level (Latin, Greek, History), AS Maths (A), 10 As at GCSE
- Scholarship awarded 1990.
