Luke Evans
Wealth Manager & Branch Principal
Luke is Founder and Branch Principal of Raymond James, Mayfair. He previously worked in two branches of a national wealth management firm, where he gained extensive experience in managing client portfolios. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CISI, as well as a member of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts (CAIA).
Email: Luke.Evans@RaymondJames.com
Roger Bown
Research Analyst & Trainee Investment Manager
Roger’s addition to the Raymond James Mayfair team in August 2023 brings extensive experience in financial services, gained over more than 38 years’, having started his career with Barclays in 1986. Previous roles range from heading up a national IFA firm as their Sales & Investment Director to being responsible for setting investment policy for a wealth management business, overseeing more than $1bn dollars of client’s global assets. He is a Chartered Member of the CISI as well as holding a Diploma in Financial Planning via the CII/PFS (DipPFS).
Alex Gracian
Alex joined Raymond James Mayfair’s Investment Committee in 2017, bringing with him a wealth of experience and insight to our proposition. He has over twenty years’ experience managing multi-billion pounds of global assets, on both buy and sell side, at top tier investment banks, for in-house sovereign wealth clients and both a corporate and government pension fund. Most recently he was Chief Investment Officer for the London Pension Authority, managing over £5 billion of assets.
A high conviction, entrepreneurial individual, Alex has recently co-founded Resolute Investment Management, a hedge fund which focuses on applying the quantitative approach that Alex has honed over a number of years to European Equities.
Raymond James
Raymond James, Mayfair is a commercially independent branch of Raymond James Investment Services Limited. As a boutique investment management firm, Raymond James Mayfair specialises in building bespoke portfolios and providing a remarkable service to Private Clients, Professional Advisers, Trusts and Charities.
Raymond James Investment Services Limited (Raymond James) is a rapidly growing wealth management business, supporting 100+ commercially independent practices that represent a mix of private client investment managers and investment focused financial planners located throughout the UK. We commenced operation in 2001 and now have over 50,000 client accounts representing total client assets of £18.18 billion.
We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (RJF), a diversified financial services company headquartered in Florida, USA. RJF is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with over 8,700 wealth managers. These wealth managers service accounts representing total assets of approximately $1.57tn.
*All Raymond James stats as of 30 September 2024