High Timber: with Abdallah Nauphal, chief executive, Insight Investment

Meeting Abdallah Nauphal was at first slightly nerve-wracking. Extensive and diligent research on Insight Investment in the hour before lunch revealed on the homepage of its website a quote from Sir Francis Bacon: "a prudent question is one half of wisdom". That raised the bar for my interview a bit high, though I decided that when it comes to crafting questions on investment one surely did not need to take lessons from a dead Elizabethan, even one who may have written Shakespeare’s plays.