Nicola Horlick

Nicola Horlick is CEO of Bramdean, a multi-manager business based in Knightsbridge. Nicola read Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1983, she joined S.G. Warburg as a graduate trainee. Her first assignment was in the investment department and she liked it so much that she decided to stay instead of completing her tour of the bank. She worked with Leonard Licht, one of the leading fund managers in the City during the 1980's, and together, they built up the Specialist Equity team of what became Mercury Asset Management. Their clients included the Railways Pension Fund, the Post Office Pension Fund, the BBC Pension Fund and the GEC Pension Fund.

In 1991, Nicola moved to Morgan Grenfell Asset Management and was put in charge of the UK investment business in 1992. That business had been in sharp decline having seen UK pension fund business fall from £10 billion under management to £4 billion under management over the previous three years. Over the following four years, assets under management rose from £4 billion to £22 billion and Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche) became acknowledged as one of the leading pension fund managers in the City of London.

In 1997, Nicola became the founding director of SG Asset Management (UK). The business was established with an objective of gaining £5 billion of assets under management within five years. This target was achieved within two years and the firm was managing £7 billion a year later. Nicola left SG in 2003 to join AMP in Sydney to run its fund management business but due to family circumstances, she was not able to take up this post.