About James
James is a fund manager of the Liontrust Global Innovation, Liontrust Global Dividend and Liontrust Global Technology funds. He joined the team in 2023 and is a fund manager with 7 years of industry experience, having previously worked in global equities at Neptune Investment Management and Liontrust. James holds an MSc in education research from Oxford University and the equivalent of a first class A.B. degree in psychology and economics from Harvard University and is a CFA Charterholder. He also currently plays for the England men’s national team in netball.
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James Dowey
Animal Spirits: Using large language models to forecast US growth
Fund manager James Dowey uses a large language model to build a simple model to help forecast US economic growth.
Storm Uru
The rise of AI co-pilots: harnessing your personal assistant for innovation
In the second of our series: 'AI - tried & tested by the Global Innovation team’, fund manager Storm Uru uses OpenAI’s generative AI model, ChatGPT, to develop his own GPT co-pilot to help prepare for our upcoming company visit.
James O'Connor
Firefly: a small step for AI, a giant leap for Global Innovation
Global Innovation Fund Manager James O’Connor tests Adobe’s generative AI model, Firefly to send the team into virtual outer space.
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