Abdallah Nauphal was in Washington visiting a client When the news broke that British voters had chosen to leave the European Union. Awake in his hotel room in the early-morning hours of June 24, the chief executive of London-based Insight Investment Management took a few seconds to wrap his head around the reports on the television before dialing Adrian Grey,the firm's chief investment officer for active management, to get a rundown on the markets. After a second call with his chief risk officer, Charles Farquharson, Nauphal felt confident that although the Brexit votemight touch the lives of his London employees on a personal level, the firm, which manages £499 billion ($649 billion) of mostly fixed-income portfolios, would be insulated from any fallout.
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