Why Marsden prefers banks

Rod Marsden, of JO Hambro, has been one of the European sector's best kept secrets. He previously ran some £200m of assets for the Japanese company Sanwa but, despite his impressive track record, was reasonably unknown. Mark Dampier, independent financial adviser at Hargreaves Lansdown, says Marsden has proven ability equal to that of Fidelity's Anthony Bolton, but his impressive track record had never really been promoted to the retail market by Sanwa so he had gone largely unnoticed. Marsden left Sanwa late last year to join JO Hambro, where he launched the JO Hambro European Fund, ...