David Lawrence

The wealth management sector is awash with consolidators – many backed by private equity – snapping up smaller advice firms.

But few have grown as quickly as Kingswood, which increased its assets under management from around £2.5 billion to £5 billion in 2020 alone.

Its new UK chief executive David Lawrence, an alumnus of Lloyds Private Bank via two years setting up Schroders Personal Wealth, says he was attrac...