Premier Miton Investors' CEO Mike O'Shea talks to Richard Romer-Lee about merging two companies, what active managers need to do to survive and thrive and the most extraordinary thing he has seen...
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...
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