Mr Pennant-Rea has extensive financial and business experience. He was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 1995, prior to which he spent 16 years with The Economist, where he was editor from 1986 to 1993. Mr Pennant-Rea was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Economist Group in July 2009. Among his other directorships are Go-Ahead Group plc and Gold Fields Limited (South Africa). He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Hochschild Mining plc on 1 September 2011 .

Mr Formica has been in the fund management industry since 1993. He has held various senior roles at the Group in the past 11 years and he has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2004. Prior to being appointed Chief Executive of the Company, he was Joint Managing Director of the Listed Assets team (from September 2006) and was Head of Equities (since September 2004). In the early part of his career, he was an equity manager and analyst for the Group.

Chief Financial Officer since September 2009. Mrs Garrood is a chartered accountant and corporate treasurer and has worked in the City for over 30 years. She joined the Group in 2001 and has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2002, latterly as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this, she was Chief Operating Officer at Morley Fund Management (Aviva) and trained as an accountant with KPMG.

Mr Jacob joined Henderson Group in January 2005 as Head of Fixed Income. In 2006, he was appointed joint Managing Director of the then newly formed Listed Assets business. David is now the CIO and Managing Director of Investment Management and is responsible for equities and fixed income investment, global distribution, operations and IT.  He also oversees the development of Henderson's North American business.  Before joining Henderson Group, he was Head of Fixed Income for UBS Global Asset Management, Europe and UK.

Mr Darkins joined AMP in 1998, before AMP's acquisition of Henderson Group, as Head of Property in New Zealand. Mr Darkins was subsequently appointed Head of Property for Asia based in Sydney, before taking up his current role in London in 2001. Over the course of his career Mr Darkins has worked in a number of property and buildings related companies in the UK and New Zealand, including 18 years in the property investment and development industry.

Mr Aherne has spent his career managing investments, pension funds and unit trusts. Mr Aherne spent 16 years, to September 2002, with Schroder Investment Management. Prior to this, he spent 18 years with Equity & Law in various actuarial and investment management roles. He is currently a Director of Electric and General Investment Trust plc and a Non-Executive Director of Mecom Group plc. Previously, he was Chief Executive of Javelin Capital LLP and an Executive Director of Majedie Investments plc. He was a founding Director of PRI Group plc, a Directors' and Officers' Liability insurer from August 2002 until June 2003, when it was acquired by BRIT.

Mr Ferguson is an experienced actuary. He is the Senior Independent Director of The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited and the Chairman of the With-Profits Committee of the Phoenix Group. Mr Ferguson's career was in senior management of insurance companies and as a consulting actuary. He was Senior Partner of Bacon & Woodrow then B&W Deloitte, from 1994 to 2003. Mr Ferguson is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He served on the Council of the Institute from 1989 to 2000 and as President from 1996 to 1998. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Halifax from 1994 until it merged with Bank of Scotland in 2001 and then of HBOS Financial Services until December 2007. He resigned as a Non-Executive Director of Windsor Life on 28 February 2011.

Mr How has extensive business experience. He was Chief Executive of Majestic Wine PLC from 1989 until August 2008 and was formerly Managing Director of Bejam Group Plc. He is a Non-Executive Director of Dixons Retail plc (previously DSG International plc), the Non-Executive Chairman of Framlington AIM VCT plc and the Deputy Chairman of the Peabody Trust. He resigned as a Non-Executive Director of Framlington AIM VCT 2 plc on 1 August 2010.

Mr Jeens has extensive experience of financial services initially as an audit partner in Touche Ross & Co and subsequently as Finance Director of Kleinwort Benson Group plc and Woolwich plc. He has been a Non-Executive Director of The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited since 2003 and is currently also a Non-Executive Director of TR European Growth Trust PLC. He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of JPMorgan Russian Securities plc with effect from 14 October 2011. His previous Non-Executive appointments include the Chairman of nCipher plc and the Deputy Chairman of Hepworth plc. He resigned as a Non-Executive Director of Dialight plc on 25 August 2010 and as a Non-Executive Director of Gartmore Fledgling Trust plc on 18 April 2011.

Mr Dolan has been in the financial industry for 32 years. He was Chief Executive of La Fayette Investment Management in London until 2009. Before that, at different times he was Chief Executive of the Asset Management Division of Bank of Ireland Group, Chief Executive of Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management in Paris, and also spent 10 years with the AXA Group where he was Chief Executive Officer of AXA Investment Managers Paris, and Global Deputy Chief Executive Officer of all of AXA Investment Management. Over the course of his career, Mr Dolan has been a Director on a number of Boards in Europe and the US, including DLJ and Alliance Capital. Mr Dolan is currently the founding partner of Anafin LLC, a recently formed advisory firm specialised in the investment industry.