"I can see 10 to 20 years of strong growth across the renewable energy industry. Energy supply is the most pressing issue facing the planet today."

Edward Guinness is co-manager of the Guinness Alternative Energy Fund and executive co-manager of the Guinness Global Thematic Equity Fund, having joined Guinness in January 2006.

Prior to joining Guinness Asset Management, Edward worked from 2002 as a merger arbitrage analyst for the Arbitrage Associates Fund at the Tiedemann Investment Group in New York. In 1998 he joined HSBC Investment Bank, where he worked in the Corporate Finance Department in the Energy & Utilities Team and in the Telecoms & Technology Team.

Edward Graduated from Cambridge University with a Master's degree in Engineering and Management Studies.