Miton's Bridge: Our strategy hasn't changed, apart from added factor of replacing George and Georgina

Managing key man risk and post-RDR landscape

Miton Group head of sales Neil Bridge talks about managing key man risk, the big differentiators for multi-asset funds, and the evolution of the post-RDR landscape.

What do you do as a smaller fund management group when two of your most high profile fund managers, running close to £900m, hand in their notice? This is the situation in which Miton head of sales Neil Bridge, a veteran of the funds industry including 22 years at Schroders, found himself following the shock news UK Value Opportunities managers George Godber and Georgina Hamilton have handed in their notice after just three years to join Polar Capital. As Miton is a listed company, the news was broken to the team one afternoon and the announcement to the stock exchange made later that ...