Brewin pair join Hargreave Hale to boost regional expansion plans

Hargreave Hale is to expand its reach with the opening of a new office in Norwich, led by two former Brewin Dolphin investment managers.

Richard Larner and Paul Pearce will both join the firm from Brewin Dolphin where they worked as divisional directors. Larner, who will head the branch, started his private client stockbroking career with Grieveson Grant in 1984. This was followed by a period at Norwich and Peterborough Building Society's stockbroking subsidiary Waters Lunniss. He then moved to become a founding partner of Hill Osborne's Norwich office, which subsequently became part of Brewin Dolphin. Larner served as head of the Norwich office from 2007. Meanwhile Pearce, who joins as investment manager, spent his...