Spear’s Review

Assured, calm and quietly forthright, Gina Parker is a wealth management veteran with over 25 years’ experience. The co-founder and senior partner at Panthera Private Office serves a clientele of domestic and international HNWs and UNHWs, taking a holistic approach to their wealth and their lives. 

She tells Spear’s she specialises in ‘very large and complex wealth’. Her work includes supporting clients throughout liquidity and post-liquidity events, helping them ‘transition from theoretical wealth to real, liquid cash’. 

Parker explains that we are in the midst of ‘one of the greatest transfers of wealth in history’, and there is a ‘real desire to educate the second generation’ as families accelerate planning. She notes clients are ‘very balanced and very rational and actually very accepting of tax’, though there is ‘a degree of nervousness about just how high the overall tax take is going’, driving pre-emptive wealth transfers.

Adviser Profile

As well as being the co-founder of Panthera Private Office, which provides full family office services for families with wealth in excess of £100 million, Gina is also a principal partner at St. James’s Place with more than 25 years’ experience in wealth management and structuring. Gina helps some of the UK’s wealthiest individuals organise their finances in a coherent, understandable and efficient way while carefully ensuring the macro strategy meets their values and objectives. 

Gina is also highly thought of for her intergenerational work and helping the younger generation understand the responsibility of great wealth, as well as assisting with family philanthropic foundations. Gina is also experienced with trust work, including suitable uses and underlying investments. 

Gina is particularly experienced at helping entrepreneurs transition from illiquid business assets to liquid cash wealth and the associated financial, planning and emotional challenges this can bring. 

Hard working and dedicated, Gina is a chartered financial planner and known for her high level of technical competence and ultra-professional and discreet approach. She is highly regarded at St. James’s Place and elsewhere and is regularly called upon to provide mentoring and insights to colleagues. 

Gina is very interested in helping children and young people in Nepal and is a founder and trustee of the Nepal Youth Foundation UK. She also sits on the board of the US-based Nepal Youth Foundation. 

Whilst the cut and thrust of the City of London always appeals, Gina adores spending time at home in the countryside with her husband and children. In her spare time – what little is left of it – she loves to run!