Walter Scott (investment manager)
Scottish investment manager
Walter Grant Scott, is a Scottish investment manager, nuclear physicist, rowing enthusiast, and founder of the global equity management business Walter Scott and Partners.
Early life
Walter Scott was born in Glasgow, in May 1947. He attended Eastwood High School and then went to Edinburgh University, where he gained a first-class honours degree in natural philosophy (physics) in 1969. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1972, researching theoretical particle physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. During this time he developed a life-long interest in the college's boat club, and in rowing as a whole.
Investment management
Ivory and Syme
As a nuclear physicist, Scott decided that although he was a capable researcher, he was in competition with potential Nobel Prize winners, and he was in a profession that was not very well paid. He decided to change careers to be in the financial services industry. In 1972 Scott started to work for Ivory and Sime in Edinburgh, and he eventually led their pension fund business. From there, after becoming a target for attempted head-hunting, he decided he could do better running his own business.
Walter Scott and Partners
In 1983, he left Ivory and Syme to found Walter Scott and Partners with two associates.
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