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Financial News' David Ricketts speaks to Virginie Maisonneuve, global CIO for equity at Allianz Global Investors; and Stephen Yiu, manager of the £1bn Blue Whale Growth fund. After the share prices of some of the world's biggest tech stocks slumped in January, how can investors avoid being burned in future? Which companies will thrive in a new digital era?

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David Ricketts
Asset Management Correspondent, Financial News
David Ricketts is the Asset Management Correspondent for Financial News and has more than a decade's experience covering the fund management sector. He is also the author of When the Fund Stops, which details the rise and fall of UK fund manager Neil Woodford.
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Stephen Yiu
Chief Investment Officer, Lead Manager, LF Blue Whale Growth Fund and Blue Whale Growth Fund
Stephen is the lead manager of LF Blue Whale Growth Fund and Blue Whale Growth Fund since inception. Having started his working life in the Hargreaves Lansdown investment team, Stephen left the company in 2007 to pursue his interest in asset management. Working at New Star (now Janus Henderson), Artemis with Tim Steer, and most recently under Martin Taylor and Nick Barnes at Nevsky Capital, Stephen has gained broad and varied experience within the investment industry over the past 20 years.

Previous funds he has directly managed or co-managed included –Citywire’s AA-rated Artemis UK Growth Fund (now Artemis UK Select Fund), Artemis Pan-European Hedge Fund (nominated for EuroHedgeAwards 2010) and New Star UK Gemini Hedge Fund (nominated for EuroHedgeAwards 2007).
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Virginie Maisonneuve
Virginie Maisonneuve joined AllianzGI as Global CIO Equity in June 2021. In this capacity, she leads the development of the firm’s Equity capability and investment offering. She is a member of AllianzGI’s Investment Executive Committee and International Management Group.

Virginie is a global investment leader with a 30 plus year track record of performance, team leadership and innovation. She has previously held portfolio management and CIO positions for companies such as Eastspring, Pimco, Schroders, Clay Finlay, Batterymarch, State Street Research and Martin Currie in various parts of the world including Singapore, New York, Boston, San Francisco and London. During this time, she has pioneered investing in areas such as China, “Quanta-mental”, Thematics, ESG and Climate Change.

Virginie started her career in China working as a consultant for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing while attending Political Economy classes at People’s University. She holds an MBA from ESLSCA, and a degree in Mandarin Chinese from Université Paris Dauphine.
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