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“Liontrust
hires smart
people and
gives them
responsibility.
We give people
the freedom to
create but want
to see results
in return."
At the time of Lehman’s demise and the onset of
the global credit crisis, McLoughlin was a multi-asset
trader for renowned hedge fund RAB Capital, having
joined the firm a year earlier from AIG where he man-
aged several credit funds. RAB Capital was hit hard by
the downturn and saw its AuM shrink drastically over
the next year, although McLoughlin also points to a
lack of liquidity and prudent hedging as other factors.
Despite the turmoil, he stayed with RAB for six years
and retains a number of important lessons learned and
fond memories of that time: “Nearly everyone in the
City, whoever I meet, they always have a tale to tell
about RAB – broker, sell-side, buy-side, everyone does,
but I think if truth be told, everyone wanted to work
there at the time,,” he says. “It was really good fun. A
lot of young, smart people working together and it had
very successful periods, but markets don’t just go up in
straight lines and no-one stays at the top forever.”
Upon leaving the firm in early 2013, McLoughlin
took the opportunity to travel before returning to work
with Legal & General Investment Management in 2014
as an equities and derivatives trader, where he gained
experience of trading much larger
volumes, before taking the call to
join up with Liontrust a year later.
One of the defining traits of the
firm he says is that people are
handed responsibility and expected
to flourish, with McLoughlin him-
self always pushing for continuous
improvements from those around
him, but that’s not to say that any-
one joining the firm can expect to
be given an easy ride of things.
“Liontrust hires smart people and
gives them responsibility. We give
people the freedom to create but
want to see results in return."
“People thrive on that, in my
opinion, and I really have, as have
my team. I’m a believer that people
won’t shy away from responsibility
and given the opportunity they can
achieve great things.”
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