Passing the torch
RC Brown father and son duo on managing generational change.
I only go to the office once or twice a week now,’ says RC Brown founder and chairman Bob Brown. ‘I sometimes do my personal finances there because the broadband is faster and I can’t work my wife’s computer,’ he deadpans.
Twenty-seven years on from the launch of the Bristol-based asset manager, Brown says he is enjoying the perks of a semi-retirement, with a minimum hands-off guidance of the firm’s operations, and clearly relishes not being obliged to earnestly discuss the dustier points of wealth industry arcana.