Retail Fund Committee Biographies

Guy is a fund manager at BMO Real Estate Partners. Prior to joining the group in 2004, Guy spent nine years at Wereldhave Property Corporation, where he was responsible for managing their UK portfolio.

Before this, he worked at Northampton Borough Council.

Guy graduated from the University of Reading with a BSc in Land Management and holds the RICS postgraduate diploma in Property Investment. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1994.

George joined Ignis Asset Management in December 2005 and is responsible for the Ignis UK Property Fund, an open ended property unit trust. 

Before Ignis he was a property investment manager at Abbey National Asset Managers from 2002, having been an Associate Director at Lambert Smith Hampton from 1996.  He started his career with Weatherall Green & Smith, where he spent six years in Edinburgh and Paris progressing to senior surveyor.

George graduated from Heriot-Watt University in 1990 with a BSc in Estate Management and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Andrew is a fund manager within the UK Balanced Funds team, where he is lead fund manager for the Aviva Investors UK Property Fund. 

Prior to assuming his current role in December 2016, Andrew has managed real estate funds investing across the UK and Continental Europe at Aviva Investors for over 9 years. Before joining Aviva Investors, Andrew spent five years at Curzon Global Partners as an associate director working across acquisitions, asset management and investment strategy. Andrew started his career at Donaldsons as a graduate surveyor in the valuation department.

Andrew has earned a post-graduate diploma in Law from Nottingham Trent University, an MPhil in Real Estate Finance from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the RICS Prize for the highest mark in university examinations, and holds an MA in Geography from the University of Oxford. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate and is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Clement is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is the Investment Oversight Manager for Real Asset Funds at Aviva Investors. Clement has specific responsibilities for the UK and Lux funds which cover a wide range of asset classes such as UK & European Real Estate, Infrastructure Debt and Equity, Private debt as well as Real Estate Finance. His focus is on supporting fund boards and committees in reviewing the portfolios structure, relative performance, and risks.

Before joining Aviva Investors, Clement spent more than 10 years developing Investment solutions for institutional and retail Clients with a focus on Manager Selection across a variety of traditional and alternative investment strategies.

Ainslie McLennan is Head of UK Balanced Funds and Fund Manager of Janus Henderson UK Property PAIF at Nuveen Real Estate, formerly TH Real Estate, which was formed in 2014 as a joint venture between Henderson Global Investors and TIAA-CREF.

Ainslie joined Henderson in 2002, running commercial property fund mandates investing both directly and indirectly in UK and European markets until 2014. Prior to Henderson, she worked for a private property investment practice in Scotland.

Ainslie graduated with a bachelor of land economy degree (Hons) from Aberdeen University. She is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Investment Property Forum. She has 21 years of property industry expertise.

David is a Senior Product Development Manager at Henderson, focussed on their range of UK regulated products. The current range of 89 funds domiciled in the UK covers all major asset classes (equity, fixed income, multi-asset, multi-manager and property).

David has 15 years of experience in various roles in the asset management industry.

David is an investment director in the property team and is a member of the Property Senior Management team.

He joined Kames Capital in 2007 from Aviva Investors where he was Property Investment Director, and has over 27 years’ industry experience.

David sits on the AREF Management Committee and is a member of the ABI Property Panel.

Richard Peacock is a fund manager in the property team and co-manages the Kames Property Income Fund. He joined in 2016 from Aviva Investors, where he was manager for the Aviva Investors Pensions Ltd Property Fund. 

Richard has a BA (Hons) in Geography from Durham University and an MSc in Land Management from the University of Reading.

Fiona Rowley has worked on the M&G Property Portfolio since its launch, becoming fund manager in 2007. She joined M&G Real Estate as an investment surveyor in 1994, having previously worked for  property service company Knight Frank.

Fiona has a BSc in Estate Management from London South Bank University and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Investment Property Forum.

Jonathan is Product Technical Manager at M&G Investments, focussing on their range of Wholesale UK and Luxembourg products across all major asset classes.  He joined M&G in 1999 and has performed a number of roles across the organisation.  

Jonathan graduated from Leicester University with a degree in Business Economics.

Ed Protheroe consults for and acts on behalf of AREF on several Board initiatives around communications, strategy and business development. He has over 30 years of experience in the fund management industry. Before founding Parkview Capital Limited in Feb 2017, he had a senior franchise management role as an Investment Director, co-Head of Equities Investment Specialists at M&G Investments and prior to that, he was Head of Real Estate Investment Specialists at M&G Real Estate. He has also been Head of Research at a boutique broker and a senior pan-European equities fund manager and unit trust board director at Aberdeen Asset Management. He started his career at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management.