President of St James Place plc, the listed parent company of the St James’s Place Wealth Management Group which he co-founded in 1991 and which today has over 1,500 financial advisers and £20 billion of funds under management. In 1961 Sir Mark founded Abbey Life Assurance Company in London. In 1969 he co-founded Hambro Life Assurance (Allied Dunbar), now part of Zurich Financial Services, which grew to become the largest unit-linked life assurance company in the UK. Sir Mark was Deputy Chairman of the principal UK regulatory body, the Securities and Investment Board, from its inception in 1985 until 1990, having been an adviser on insurance affairs to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. He has many charitable interests and is a governor of the London School of Economics.
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