At Kleinwort Benson you won’t find a standard off-the-shelf solution or a one size fits all approach to wealth management. They pride themselves on gaining a full understanding of the priorities, needs and aspirations of clients before assessing and selecting individual solutions.
The opening of a Leeds office of Kleinwort Benson in 2008, combines two hundred years of private banking knowledge and experience with a wealth of local expertise. The team in Leeds, headed by Carl Ward, has a combination of over 60 years personal experience of financial services and an insight to the local business market that brings a fresh and innovative approach to wealth management in the Yorkshire area.
Renowned as the North’s fastest growing financial hub for entrepreneurs, the expansion in Leeds marks a return to their roots. Kleinwort Benson can trace their history back to foundations in the North during the boom years of merchant banking in the Victorian period.
Today their wide range of private client, fiduciary and corporate services are provided by expert Client Relationship Managers based throughout the UK, with offices in several other regional financial hubs including Birmingham, Edinburgh and Manchester, as well as traditional bases in the City of London, meaning proximity to clients and their advisers, wherever they are and whenever they are required.
Ranked as the number one domestic private bank for Entrepreneurs and in 2008 nominated as the best private bank by readers of the Financial Times and Investors Chronicle Kleinwort Benson is proud to be expanding in the North.
Carl Ward said: “Leeds is a growing centre of importance in financial terms. As with any ‘hub’, entrepreneurs, senior executives and high flyers are naturally gravitating towards the exciting opportunities the city and Yorkshire as a whole increasingly present. Being right in the heart of this hub we are now ideally placed to serve the wealth management needs of the burgeoning high net wealth community’.
Kleinwort Benson is proud to be forming close links with other organisations such as Leeds Ahead, Marketing Leeds, in addition to Legal and accountancy practices in Yorkshire.