Richard Romer-Lee: Industry needs to ensure integrity at every turn

Responds to FCA study

Jayna Rana
clock • 7 min read

After celebrating the third anniversary of Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research, managing director Richard Romer-Lee tells Jayna Rana about his plans for the business, his key take-aways from the FCA's Asset Management Market Study, and how everyone across the supply chain must share the responsibility of meeting clients' needs.

Richard Romer-Lee has been a well-known commentator on the UK investment industry for close to 20 years, during a period of huge change for the asset management and advisory sectors.  He co-founded Old Broad Street Research (OBSR) in 1999, which was later sold to Morningstar in 2010 where Romer-Lee remained until 2013. He then decided he was ready for a new challenge, setting up Square Mile Investment Consulting & Research in January 2014 in the wake of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) to meet the evolving needs of financial advisers, wholesale businesses and asset managers. Th...

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