Square Mile's Romer-Lee: The industry needs to ensure there is integrity at every turn

Responds to FCA study

After celebrating the third anniversary of Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research, managing director Richard Romer-Lee tells Jayna Rana about his plans for the business, his key take-aways from the FCA's Asset Management Market Study, and how everyone across the supply chain must share the responsibility of meeting clients' needs.

Richard Romer-Lee has been a well-known commentator on the UK investment industry for close to 20 years, during a period of huge change for the asset management and advisory sectors.  He co-founded Old Broad Street Research (OBSR) in 1999, which was later sold to Morningstar in 2010 where Romer-Lee remained until 2013. He then decided he was ready for a new challenge, setting up Square Mile Investment Consulting & Research in January 2014 in the wake of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) to meet the evolving needs of financial advisers, wholesale businesses and asset managers. Th...