Rathbones' Mike Webb: We are never going back to the way we used to work

RUTM CEO looks back at ten years of market changes

Mike Webb, CEO of Rathbone Unit Trust Management, talks to editor Lauren Mason about ESG, value assessments, and navigating the business through both the pandemic and the looming Brexit transition deadline.

It has now been more than ten years since you have been at Rathbones' helm. How has the business changed over the past decade? When I joined, Rathbones was a brilliant business but it had been through some very tough times, having done incredibly well then having really suffered during the Global Financial Crisis. The firm had around £750m of assets when I joined, and it was my goal to build these assets back up, and to give the market confidence that we would still be around in 15 to 20 years' time. We have been very successful in doing that. Essentially, we built out from one fran...