UK Private Investment Office Adds Trio

Tom Burroughes

11 July 2019

UK-based has hired two senior figures, Jonathan Lanceley and James Meiklejohn, as well as a prominent financial industry figure to its investment advisory board, Richard Davidson.

Lanceley joins as a partner and advisor, bringing more than 20 years of wealth management experience. He was an executive director at UBS, where he had worked in a number of roles over his 15 years at the firm. Meiklejohn joins as an advisor. He was previously a partner at Redburn Partners, where he spent 13 years in equity sales. At Redburn, he managed relationships with several large investment institutions and hedge funds and was responsible for analysing investment ideas for his clients.

Davidson has more than 25 years of experience in fund management. He was a partner at Lansdowne Partners and the manager of Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s $7 billion Global Asset Allocation fund, where he was also chief investment officer and chief European equity strategist in London. He is chairman of the University of Edinburgh Endowment Investment Committee and chairman of Miton Global Opportunities and Aberforth Smaller Companies Investment Trusts.

Ross Elder, managing partner at the firm, was earlier this year named Leading Individual (Advisor) at this publication's annual European wealth management awards, held in London.