Before the relaunch, Cheviot was a UK stockbroker of some 20 years standing owned by accountancy firm Kingston Smith. It was acquired in May by Old Oak, a financial services group run by Martin Hughes, who separately runs hedge fund Toscafund.
Many of the 50 staff poached were formerly with Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management, which was bought by UBS in 2004 in a...
