William Longden Smith

CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income Plc is a closed-end investment fund. It focuses on providing shareholders with capital growth and income from a portfolio of mining and resource equities resources and industrial fixed interest securities. The company was founded on October 7, 1994 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Premier Miton Group Plc, Premier Portfolio Managers Ltd. is a holding British company that provides asset management services through its subsidiaries. The company is based in Guildford, UK and was founded in 1975.

CQS Asset Management Ltd. (CQS-AM) is the Great Britain-based specialist fund management subsidiary of CQS Cayman Management Ltd., itself a subsidiary of Cayman-based CQS Cayman LP. Established in 2004 by Richard Lockwood, the firm was formerly known as NCIM-New City Investment Managers Ltd., CQS-AM was acquired in 2007 and uses NCIM as their trading name. The firm's clients include pension funds, insurance companies, stockbrokers, charities and private individuals.

Westbeck Capital Management LLP (WCM) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in London, UK. WCM was founded in 2016 by William Smith and Jean-Louis Le Mee. The firm provides investment advisory services to their clients.