Clive Fiske Harrison

Clive Fiske Harrison (born 23 November 1939) is an English investment banker. He is the chairman of Fiske plc, an independent investment bank based in London.[1]

According to Debrett's, Fiske Harrison was educated at Felsted School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[2] and worked at Panmure Gordon & Co. as a stockbroker[3] alongside David Cameron's father Ian,[4] before joining Fiske & Co. in the early 1970s.

In the late 1970s, Fiske & Co. purchased the stockbrokers Bragg, Stockdale, Hall & Co., (founded 1828) then headed by Lord Ailesbury, who became a partner at Fiske & Co., and later joined the board when it became a limited company.[5] Fiske has grown to over half a billion pounds under investment,[6] became a publicly listed company in 2000, Fiske Plc, and was named top investment bank by the financial news service Bloomberg the following year.[7] Fiske Harrison has long taken a sceptical view of the market, leading The Times' City Editor to comment in January 2009, "One person whose views I respect is Clive Fiske Harrison who runs Fiske & Co, the stockbroker. Fiske Harrison has spent no less than 47 years in the stock market. In a letter to clients and friends just before Christmas he warned that the market's reaction to the present problems was still relatively modest in the context of past crises and almost certainly had further to go."[8]

According to Burke's Peerage, Fiske Harrison is a direct descendant of Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison of Copford Hall.[9] (He is also a distant cousin of Field Marshall Earl Kitchener and, by marriage, Field Marshal Viscount Gough.)[10] He married and had three sons. His eldest son Byron is an investment banker, his middle son Jules William Fiske Harrison was, according to The Times, a "famously skilled and fearless skiier" who died in a skiing accident in Zermatt, Switzerland in 1988[11] and his youngest son Alexander Fiske-Harrison is an actor, writer, bullfighter who also participates in the annual 'running of the bulls' in Pamplona alongside his father.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Financial Times, Market's Data: Fiske plc
  2. ↑ Winter, Laura. "Clive Fiske Harrison". Debrett's People of Today 2012
  3. ↑ Hilton, Anthony 'Clive's 50 Not Out In The City' Evening Standard, 26 September 2012
  4. ↑ http://takimag.com/article/another_battle_lost_on_the_playing_fields_of_eton_alexander_fiske_harrison/print#axzz3Kk6UK8vC
  5. ↑ http://companycheck.co.uk/director/900167687
  6. ↑ Hoovers, Fiske plc
  7. ↑ The Fiske Family Association website: 'Famous Fiskes'
  8. ↑ Shearlock, Peter. 'Heaven & Hell Portfolio: Peter Shearlock: Blue chips outdo the small fry', The Times. 4 January 2009
  9. ↑ Fiske Harrison of Layer de la Haye Burke's Peerage
  10. ↑ "Clive Fiske Harrison" The Peerage.com
  11. ↑ Coren, Giles. 'How do I hate skiing?', The Times 21 March 2009
  12. ↑ 'San Fermín So Far – 2014' The Pamplona Post 12 July 2014

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