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Andrew Hess is in his 18th year at Rathbones and has built an impressive book of business, managing discretionary investment portfolios for private individuals, their pensions, trusts and charities – as well as managing investments for City livery companies. ‘Hess is the big name there,’ says one observer.

Hess manages a London team with £5 billion of assets. ‘It has been an eventful year,’ Hess tells Spears. ‘Clients’ portfolios are diversified and therefore able to weather short-term volatility, and our investment managers have had access to a vast amount of proprietary research that has helped to anticipate and plan for some of the ups and downs.’

A member of Rathbones’ fixed income, macro and credit fund selection committee and a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, Hess has more than 25 years in the industry. Even so, he’s still looking to the future: ‘Brexit aside, at the moment we are focusing on the investment impact of disruptive technologies – which companies and sectors have the potential to make the most money from new technologies like driverless vehicles, intelligent robots and personalised medicines. In the short term, I will be getting to grips with running across and swimming between the Scilly Isles.’

Hess says he ‘prefers to fly under the radar’, but whatever he’s doing, it’s working.