James Barton, an investment director at Odey Wealth Management (UK), who left the firm earlier in 2018, has resurfaced at Featherstone Investment Partners (Featherstone), a new wealth management start-up backed by a larger group that originally started life as a single family office.

Mr Barton assumes the position of chief executive at Thatcham, Berkshire-based Featherstone which received its FCA authorisation on 2 July.

“We are part of a group founded in 1999 as a ‘family office’ to manage the investments of a single family,” Featherstone says on its website. “Today the group adm...