Talking with... Premier Miton Investors' Mike O'Shea

How did you get into the industry? It was so long ago. I left university in 1984 with a degree in economics and wanted to go to London. I responded to an advert for what I thought would be an investment job but which turned out to be a sales role at Porchester Group. I learned lots but it wasn't for me. In 1986 I joined Premier, which was then an IFA firm - and I have been at the same business ever since. In 1988 we started to market a unit trust portfolio management service to financial advisers and it soon became clear that having an adviser business and a growing asset management b...