The expanding firm, based in the City, has attracted the new partners over the past six months.

The firm says the challenges of Covid-19 have failed to hold back the company from growing.

The new members of the firm are:

• Kat Smilewicz – a Chartered Financial Planner who joins from Tilney. She previously worked for Investors, a private hedge fund in Poland.
• Harjinder Bhatti – a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment with over 18 years of City and financial advice experience at BNP Paribas Wealth Management and UBS Wealth Management.
• Georgi Bennett – a Chartered Financial Planner, who joins from Skerritt Consultants after beginning her career in the City in life assurance and private equity.
• Tom Fitzgerald O’Connor – with 20 years’ experience in wealth management, he joins from Bellecapital, prior to which he was a senior private banker at Weatherbys Bank.
• Mark Priestley – who has had a financial services career spanning 30 years, largely in private banking at Coutts and Barclays Wealth Management.
• Simon Duncan – a Chartered Financial Planner with 25 years’ experience who is also a qualified Chartered Surveyor, he was previously at Close Brothers.

James Roberts, managing partner, said: “Lockdown has caused dislocation in the adviser market. Many top-end financial advisers are questioning whether the organisations they work for provide the level of proposition flexibility they seek to best service their clients and fulfil their ambitions. 

“As a partnership combining scale with a commitment to investment independence, we are excited to be the home for advisers of this level.”

Partners Wealth Management is a Chartered firm providing leading whole-of-market investment solutions. It has a team of 90 plus people with approximately 2,000 clients, and over £2 billion of client assets under management.

The firm’s early clients were mainly partners in legal and accountancy firms. Clients today also include barristers, entrepreneurs, trustees, executives, divorcees and retirees.