From Baillie Gifford to platform disruptor - 'Buy lists have helped avoid paralysis'

Launching a business is never easy, but launching during a global pandemic? Magnus’ Chief Investment Strategist, Georgie Ogilvie-Jones, joins us to talk through the highs, lows, and lessons from launching in lockdown.

With consolidation rife in the wealth industry, integration has never been more important. In this episode, we’re joined by Carl Woodward, co-founder of Simplify Consulting, to find out just how firms are addressing these integration challenges, consumer duty, and acquisition drivers.

The former British ambassador to the US Lord Kim Darroch joins The Wealth Show to talk all things Trump, democracy under threat, and Elon Musk’s firing spree. This episode was recorded live from the Wealth Manager Conference & Awards 2025, where Darroch delivered a keynote address.

Women are still woefully underrepresented in wealth management, with Citywire’s Alpha Female Report last year showing just 12.5% of active portfolio managers are female. For International Women’s Day last week, Citywire hosted a roundtable featuring four Top 100 Women. The industry’s poor female retention rate was a hot topic of…

Louise Kernohan discusses leaving Abrdn in 2020 to join Newton and run the firm’s £590m BNY Mellon UK Equity fund and why ‘sustainable UK equities’ is not a contradiction in terms.