Guild of Investment Managers seeks Livery status

Set up last October by former investment manager duo

Two former investment managers are looking for new members to join the Guild of Investment Managers, which was launched last year, with the intention to become a City Livery Company in due course.

Alderman John Garbutt and Mark Henderson, who have both worked for Touche Remnant Investment Management, which was bought by Henderson in 1993, formed the Guild of Investment Managers (GIM) in October 2016. The duo want the Guild to become a Livery Company, which would make it the first asset management organisation to achieve this status and would see it renamed to the official Livery style, the Worshipful Company of Investment Managers.  There are some 110 Livery Companies of the City of London with most areas of financial services, such as tax advisers, chartered accountants and ...