Tony Yarrow to retire from Wise Funds

Will stay on as a trustee

Pedro Gonçalves
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Tony Yarrow, founder of Wise Funds and one of the UK's longest-serving fund managers, has announced his retirement at the end of June, just a couple of months short of his 70th birthday.

Yarrow will stay on as a trustee of the employee-owned company and remains an investor in both Wise Multi-Asset Growth and Wise Multi-Asset Income funds. His career as an adviser and investor spans almost four decades of value-oriented investing.  Yarrow started his career as a financial adviser in 1984 and began managing funds in 1988. He has been managing investment funds continuously since then. He founded Wise Investments in 1992 to help people manage their investments and then in 2004, he launched the first of the two multi-asset funds managed through its sister company, Wise Funds....

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