Marlborough expands personal portfolio service

Ian Hardcastle, Stephen Bennet and Oliver Northover join Marlborough

Ian Hardcastle
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Marlborough has hired a trio of investment managers to expands its Personal Portfolio service.

Ian Hardcastle (pictured) has been appointed co-head of private clients, while Stephen Bennett and Oliver Northover join as investment directors. All three previously worked for Rathbones, and are based in Marlborough’s new office in Winchester, Hampshire. 

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They join Edward Kennedy, co-head of private clients with Hardcastle, and portfolio manager Rory Dowie.

Richard Goodall, CEO of the Marlborough Group, said: “Ian, Stephen and Oliver are a great fit for us as we expand the service to meet this growing demand.”

Hardcastle said: “In Marlborough, all three of us recognised an independently owned business with exciting growth plans, where the team share our passion, our values and our client-focused philosophy.

“We’re very much looking forward to working in partnership with advisers to bring this combination of disciplined data-led portfolio management and genuinely personal service to more and more of their clients.”