Alex Barr

Alex Barr is a Scottish financier and politician representing Cordwainer Ward in the City of London, as a Common Councilman. He has been consistently rated as one of the most influential and important Scottish financiers of the Cordwainer Ward.

Barr attended high school in Fife and then the University of Aberdeen.^[1] He started a career in investment management in Edinburgh.^[2] He moved to London in 1995 joining Henderson Investors on their US Equities desk. He later moved on to Morgan Grenfell, (which became Deutsche Asset Management or “DeAM”). Here he was had oversight of their Multi Asset portfolios. The business has now been taken over by Aberdeen Asset Management, for whom Barr works as co-head of their European Private Equity Portfolio Management Team.^[1]^[3]

Bramdean Alternative[]

Bramdean Alternatives was a fund formerly run by Nicola Horlick which got caught up in the Madoff investment scandal. Following this in June 2009 Vincent Tchenguiz, utilised his investment company Elsina to seize control at an Extraordinary General Meeting. This meant that in November 2009, Horlick lost control as the contract with her company Bramdean Asset Management was bought out of its remaining contract by Aberdeen Asset Management. Barr was then responsible for rebranding the company as Aberdeen Private Equity and took over the running of it.^[4]^[5]