Richard Aston

Mr. Richard J.
Aston is a Portfolio Manager at Chikara Investments LLP.
He was promoted to Managing Director in 2008.
In December 2010, he returned to London and joined Coupland Cardiff Asset Management LLP.
Mr. Aston first moved into the finance industry as an Investment Analyst with Sun Life Asset Management (now part of AXA Investment Managers) in 1992.
After various roles within the asset management team, he was appointed as a Portfolio Manager on the Japanese desk in 1997.
In 2000, he was appointed Head of Japanese equities at Chase Asset Management in London.
Following the merger of Chase Manhattan, Flemings and JPMorgan, he became a member of the JPMorgan Asset Management Japanese Equities team based in London and subsequently in Tokyo, where he worked closely with Jonathan Dobson.
Mr. Aston graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Engineering.