Meet the Investment Influencers: WH Ireland's Roddy Buchanan

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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 players within it?

In the latest in 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 Roddy Buchanan, head of private wealth management at WH Ireland. Buchanan took on that role earlier this year having joined the firm as deputy head of private clients in 2013. His 33-year career, which has seen him fulfil a number of senior roles focused exclusively within private wealth management, began in 1983 at Capel-Cure Myers, where he ultimately became head of private clients. After a short sp...

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