Adviser firm picks up £55m of assets from suspended London DFM

£55m in AUM

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"It is great too to demonstrate again that here in North Devon we have the gravitas to attract such confidence from elsewhere in the country ” - Philip Milton
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"It is great too to demonstrate again that here in North Devon we have the gravitas to attract such confidence from elsewhere in the country ” - Philip Milton

Devon-based advice firm Philip J Milton has been given the responsibility of managing £55m on behalf of more than 1,600 investors following the recent suspension of a London-based DFM.

Discretionary fund manager (DFM) Organic Investment Management entered into administration at the end of last year and was told it must not carry out any regulated activities without the Financial Conduct...

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