Rathbones Reserve offers you bespoke financial advice and portfolio management to fit today’s needs and tomorrow’s aspirations. We take time and great care to listen to your circumstances and present curated solutions to help reach your objectives.
Our holistic approach to managing your wealth enables us to provide you with an overarching plan for the future. And while your circumstances and objectives may change over time, our commitment to helping you grow, protect and preserve your wealth from generation to generation remains constant.
You will have direct access to a team of wealth management experts who will personally manage your affairs. And our independence from other financial providers ensures that the service we offer is never tied to any manager, asset class or investment style — creating unconstrained opportunities.
WHAT WE DO
Rathbones Reserve is a highly individual wealth and investment management service, curated for clients with significant assets and complex requirements.
Our expert teams harness the full range of Rathbones services to demystify complex needs and offer clear, refined solutions. Whether working alongside your existing team of professional advisers or managing every aspect in-house, we adopt a holistic approach and offer you access to the dedicated investment management, lending, financial planning and trust services of Rathbones and our external partners.
Our approach is advisory driven with the focus on securing long-term trusted relationships with our clients and partners.
FINANCIAL PLANNING AND TAX
INDIVIDUAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT
SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT AND PHILANTHROPY
TRUST AND LEGAL SERVICES
OFFSHORE EXPERTISE
*This service is not regulated by the FCA
**This service is not regulated by the FCA
***Regulated by JFS
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International private client services
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OUR TEAM
Ian Dembinski
Strategic partner and growth director
Ian Dembinski
Strategic partner and growth director
London
Ian joined Rathbones in 2016 as Head of Rathbones Private Office with a focus on serving larger high net worth clients including entrepreneurs, families and successful individuals looking for tailored investment management services. In July 2019 he was appointed to a wider role of Head of Client Development with responsibility for delivering the optimal Rathbones investment solutions to our clients including portfolio management, financial planning, trusts and international services. Following our merger with Investec wealth management, he has in addition been asked to lead the Strategic partnership with Investec bank offering their lending solutions to our wealth management clients and our investment solutions to the Bank’s clients.
Prior to joining Rathbones, he was head of UK domestic private banking at Credit Suisse and head of UK ultra high net worth clients at UBS. He is level 6 PCIAM qualified and studied modern history at Queen’s College Oxford University.
Ian joined Rathbones in 2016 as Head of Rathbones Private Office with a focus on serving larger high net worth clients including entrepreneurs, families and successful individuals looking for tailored investment management services. In July 2019 he was appointed to a wider role of Head of Client Development with responsibility for delivering the optimal Rathbones investment solutions to our clients including portfolio management, financial planning, trusts and international services. Following our merger with Investec wealth management, he has in addition been asked to lead the Strategic partnership with Investec bank offering their lending solutions to our wealth management clients and our investment solutions to the Bank’s clients.
Prior to joining Rathbones, he was head of UK domestic private banking at Credit Suisse and head of UK ultra high net worth clients at UBS. He is level 6 PCIAM qualified and studied modern history at Queen’s College Oxford University.
Melanie Wotherspoon
Head of Professional Intermediary Business Development
Melanie Wotherspoon
Head of Professional Intermediary Business Development
London
Melanie joined Rathbones in 2014 after spending the previous seven years at Jupiter. Prior to that, she was at Baring Asset Management, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and EY. She gained international experience working for HSBC in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Mumbai. Melanie is a Chartered Accountant, has a degree in Systems and Management from City University, London and is a Chartered Member of the CISI. She is both a trustee and member of the Investment Committee for the Francis C Scott Charitable Trust that commits over £1m a year to areas of deprivation in Cumbria and North Lancashire. Melanie is also a member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants.
Melanie joined Rathbones in 2014 after spending the previous seven years at Jupiter. Prior to that, she was at Baring Asset Management, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and EY. She gained international experience working for HSBC in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Mumbai. Melanie is a Chartered Accountant, has a degree in Systems and Management from City University, London and is a Chartered Member of the CISI. She is both a trustee and member of the Investment Committee for the Francis C Scott Charitable Trust that commits over £1m a year to areas of deprivation in Cumbria and North Lancashire. Melanie is also a member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants.
Jake Wellesley-Smith
Client development director - North
Jake Wellesley-Smith
Client development director - North
Kendal
Jake joined Rathbones in 2020. He spearheads the client development activities across the North of England and the Midlands, delivering discretionary portfolio management services to private clients, charities and trusts. He is also responsible for developing and managing intermediary relationships.
Jake started his career in finance at Lombard Street Research before moving into the private client investment world with Border Asset Management in Cumbria. He joined Rathbones after 7 years working for Aberdeen Standard Capital (formerly Standard Life Wealth) following the acquisition of Newton Investment Management's private client arm in 2013.
Jake is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
Jake joined Rathbones in 2020. He spearheads the client development activities across the North of England and the Midlands, delivering discretionary portfolio management services to private clients, charities and trusts. He is also responsible for developing and managing intermediary relationships.
Jake started his career in finance at Lombard Street Research before moving into the private client investment world with Border Asset Management in Cumbria. He joined Rathbones after 7 years working for Aberdeen Standard Capital (formerly Standard Life Wealth) following the acquisition of Newton Investment Management's private client arm in 2013.
Jake is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
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