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Tim Whiting launched Timothy James and Partners almost 20 years ago and remains chief executive and a substantial shareholder in the business, which is now majority-owned by Sodberg.
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He told FT Adviser the business only accepts new clients on a referral basis, and although it has represented professional footballers in the past, right now it won’t.
He said: "The thing we find with footballers is they can be quite fickle, every time they move to a different club they change agent and accountant and lawyer and financial adviser.
"And of course that means the time horizon of their investment portfolio is often shorter than we think is appropriate, so they are not appropriate clients for us right now."