Interview: Robert Horrocks on Mandarin to Matthews Asia

There are many reasons for working in fund management, but Robert Horrocks, chief investment officer (CIO) at Matthews Asia, says it was the intellectual appeal that drew him in. He explains: “My mother was a teacher, my father was a mathematician, my older brother is a lecturer, my younger brother also works in finance but is a bit of a maths whizz, so it’s probably in my DNA. I like the abstract and I like dealing with ideas.”