There's no shortage of knowledge at RSMR! Each week we get our heads together and talk about events in the world and how investments are affected by them. Our broadcast tackles a wide range of topical issues facing investors from liquidity to the future of alternatives to politics and the pound. We like to think of it as cracking content for the financial adviser. Have a read & get clued up...
RSMR was founded in 2004 by Ken Rayner, Caroline Spencer and Geoff Mills. With backgrounds in investment, operations and marketing, the goal was to combine their knowledge and expertise to provide outstanding investment research and analysis to the UK advisory community.
In 2004, then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, wrote to the CEO’s of significant financial institutions and a group of the world’s largest institutional investors to ask them to take part in an initiative to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices into capital markets.
Growing our presence by welcoming new users to the Hub is a crucial area of focus for us. We gained over 500 new users in 2018 and we’ve attracted just short of 600 advisers in 2019.
Derek Stewart is a survivor, an extraordinarily driven individual and a very lovely man. I met Derek at our recent conference, he had no idea we were going to ask him to talk to the room about his 200-mile Tahoe endurance run and his remarkable commitment to Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres, but he stepped up to the challenge and delivered a fascinating and inspirational talk about his incredible achievement and his determination to raise as much money as possible for Maggie’s.
We’ve been hosting conferences since 2014 and take great pride in creating the most remarkable and informative day possible for all our attendees.
Every month we study the universe of funds in the investment marketplace to assess whether they meet our exacting standards and should be given the RSMR seal of approval.
As part of the RSMR conference evening event, Ed Balls gave us his take on monetary policy, Eurozone issues and the future of Britain.
Andrew Stobart has far reaching knowledge of global investments with significant expertise in Asia and Emerging Markets. He is also an investment manager for an ex-US International Equity product. Andrew is a key member of the firm’s Mental Health Group and an active advocate of mental wellbeing in the workplace.
Simon Edelsten is passionate about growing real wealth by investing in high quality stocks worldwide and we welcomed his insightful tour of global equities to the RSMR podium.
Colin Morton is one of the longest standing fund managers in the UK, with more than thirty years' experience. Not surprisingly he has serious knowledge of the UK marketplace and is the perfect speaker on UK investment.
Justin Onuekwusi, recently named in the Evening Standard's Progress 1000 as one of London's most influencial people in 2019 for Fintech & banking, is very highly regarded in the investment world and a big advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Justin has always supported our conferences and we are privileged to have such a great speaker at another of our events.
BMO launched Europe’s first SRI fund in 1984 and have won 3 awards in 2019 alone for responsible investing. BMO have over 1250 engagements across 665 companies, spanning 46 countries.
Ever since the UK voted to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016, global investors have looked upon the UK as a pariah stock market with almost continual and indiscriminate selling. A recent survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch of over 200 global fund managers, found that the UK was the least favoured of the global markets, with a net 28% underweight. Fundamental valuation analysis doesn’t seem to have played a part in this judgement, with a sentiment-driven approach linked to the expected impact of Brexit being much more likely.
