TwentyFour AM: We have to do things that will get us noticed

'We have to do things that will get us noticed'

TwentyFour Asset Management chief executive Mark Holman tells Laura Dew about the challenges of running a boutique firm, and how new hires are propelling the business forward.

A raft of high-profile hires over the past six months has helped position TwentyFour Asset Management on the fund management map. Following the appointment of former Ignis bond manager Chris Bowie last August, this year the boutique poached Investec Wealth strategist Dawn Kendall, who joins as a partner later this year, and Bowie's former co-manager Gordon Shannon, who joins as a portfolio manager. For the firm, which launched in the same week in 2008 as the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the hires are testament to six years of hard work by the team in a bid to get the boutique noticed....