Meet the Investment Influencers: Harwood's Richard Philbin

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The fund selection and fund research markets are a major part of the multi-trillion pound investment industry but who are the key people within it?

In the latest of our series of video interviews with the most respected individuals who select funds, decide ratings or otherwise influence the allocation of investor fund flows, we meet Richard Philbin, chief investment officer of Harwood Wealth. In May 2013, Philbin and business partner Alan Durrant set up Harwood Multi Manager to manage multi-manager funds and discretionary portfolios for clients. Over the next three years, the company grew substantially through acquisition before, renamed Harwood Wealth, it floated on the Alternative Investment Market in in March 2016. Philbin, wh...

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