Sally Buxton specialises in advising governments, regulators and the private sector on development of collective investment schemes and asset management markets internationally, with a particular focus on emerging markets. 

Since starting work in the asset management sector in 1982, when she became responsible for the public information programme of what is now the Investment Management Association of the UK, subsequently becoming strategic adviser to the Association of Investment Trust Companies, UK, Sally has worked with a wide variety of private sector clients including fund management firms, their service providers and trade associations in Western Europe and the USA.  She first worked in emerging markets in 1991, advising a major commercial bank in Slovakia on the marketing of a privatisation fund, which subsequently attracted more than 10% of the Slovak population.  Since then she has worked on the development of privatisation programmes, capital markets and collective investment schemes in more than twenty-five emerging markets around the world.

She is co-author of the book ‘Managing Collective Investment Funds’ and of the handbook ‘Regulating Collective Investment Funds’.  She is an experienced speaker and trainer, having designed and delivered more than a hundred training courses for the asset management sector internationally.  She is one of the two trainers who design and deliver the Investment Management Association/Cadogan Education regular introductory course for managers - ‘Understanding the Business of Investment Fund Management Companies’.