City Matters Edition 035

Page 6 | 31 May - 06 June 2017
Business Matters
Development
specialist joins
Mackrell Turner
Garrett’s team
MACKRELL Turner Garrett (MTG) – with
historic roots in the City of London – has
appointed a new business development expert
to help guide the firm as it continues to grow.
Chris Lane joins the firm – founded in the
Square Mile in 1845 and now based at Savoy Hill
House – as its head of business development and
marketing after more than two decades in the
legal sector.
He also has 10 years’ experience focusing
on the practice management, business
development and marketing for full service
barristers’ chambers.
He holds a number of professional
qualifications, including being a member of the
Chartered Institute of Marketing and Institute
of Leadership Management.
“I hope that my expertise in business
development and marketing can help guide
the firm and its team of partners so that it can
maintain the high levels of annual growth that it
has come to enjoy,” he said.
In his new role, Chris will help to guide the
partnership team at MTG by providing advice
and support with the practice’s popular events
and seminars, as well as conducting market
research and implementing campaigns aimed at
further expanding the firm’s diverse client base.
MTG managing partner Nigel Rowley is
expecting his new recruit to hit the ground
running.
He added: “Chris brings with him a lot of
experience and I am in no doubt that he will
assist us with our vision for the future of our
firm.”
A SHARED sector commitment to arm
thousands of schoolchildren with essential
money skills has been launched, with one City
institution leading the way.
Sixteen of Britain’s leading savings and
investment firms have given their backing
to KickStart Money, a collaborative project
investing £1million to take financial education
to nearly 18,000 primary pupils.
The movement plans to build a national
savings culture for the future, with research
showing that just 7% of seven to 17-year-olds
have talked to their teachers about money.
Behaviours
Primary delivery partner, the charity MyBnk,
is taking its Money Twist programme into 100
schools, focusing on topics such as saving,
budgeting, careers, borrowing, and consumer
and public finance to help forge positive
financial attitudes and behaviours in seven to
11-year-olds.
Spearheaded by Columbia Threadneedle,
Old Mutual Wealth and managed by The Tax
Incentivised Savings Association, KickStart
Money is a serious statement of intent by
the sector in response to calls from Select
Committees and All Party Parliamentary
Groups for money lessons to become a
compulsory element of the primary national
curriculum.
Rupert Pybus, global head of brand and
marketing at Columbia Threadneedle and a
trustee director of the firm’s foundation, said
that targeting the younger generations was the
best way to help shape attitudes in the coming
years.
He added: “Significant proportions of the
UK population lack the basic functional skills
and knowledge to effectively manage their
money.
“KickStart Money has been developed as a
mechanism for the industry to pro-actively and
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Movement to shape
attitudes to finance
educating future savers:
Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro
collectively transform the long-term savings
behaviour of a generation.”
The project has also been awarded £80,000
by Money Advice Service as part of their ‘What
Works Fund’ independent evaluation project
to help deepen the knowledge of the UK’s most
effective financial capability interventions.
Sessions are free for schools, who are urged
to book workshops via info@mybnk.org