Company
Position
Investment manager
Index
HNW Wealth Managers
Wealth Managers - Guernsey
Location
Saint Peter Port
Advice type
Alternative investments
Investment management
Client type
HNW
Sector Focus
Financial Services
Investments and Asset Management
Toby Birch
Spear’s Review
Toby Birch, who has more than 30 years of experience as an investment manager, runs the in-house portfolios for Gower Financial Services’ discretionary and advisory clients. Prior to this role, he was a fund manager at Old Mutual International in the UK before transferring to the firm’s Guernsey offices. He subsequently worked at Julius Baer on the island and later became a hedge fund manager at a private family office.
Birch, who regularly writes well-informed blog posts on investment trends and wrote a book in 2007 predicting the credit crunch, joined Gower in 2017, attracted by the firm’s independent approach and personalised solutions for clients. Reflecting his keen interest in precious metals, he is also chairman of the Guernsey-based closed-end fund Golden Prospect Precious Metals.
The private banker is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments and holds an Islamic finance qualification.
Rank: Recommended

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