Philip Latham Awarded the Alistair Ross Goobey CBE Prize

Philip Latham from Magdalene College has been awarded the Alistair Ross Goobey Prize for overall best performance on the MPhil Real Estate Finance degree.

Phil produced a thesis titled ‘Euphoria and Despair: The Effect of Exogenous Variables on Residential Property Markets’, and secured cohort leading results in his examinations focused on financial modelling, econometrics, statistical techniques, real estate investment and corporate finance.

Since graduating from Cambridge Phil has joined the Reech Corporations Group, where under the guidance of seasoned Hedge Fund Manager, Christophe Reech he will be managing an opportunistic Closed End Fund deploying capital into UK real estate development projects.

The Ross Goobey Prize is given in memory of Alistair Ross Goobey – one of the most prominent and respected fund managers of recent times, credited for developing institutional shareholder activism on the London Stock Exchange. After reading economics at Trinity College Cambridge, Alistair joined Kleinwort Benson as a graduate trainee. He was ultimately appointed chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management in 1993 and saw the fund grow to almost £50 billion by the time he stood down in 2001.