Clive Fiske Harrison (born 23 November 1939) is a retired English stockbroker. For half a century, he was senior partner, then chief executive and latterly chairman of Fiske plc, the oldest remaining independent stockbroking firm in the City of London.

Early life

According to ''

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'', Fiske Harrison was educated at

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and Trinity Hall,

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, and worked at Panmure Gordon, as a stockbroker, alongside

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's father Ian Cameron, before joining Fiske & Co in the early 1970s.

Fiske & Co

In 1975, Fiske & Co merged with stockbrokers Bragg, Stockdale, Hall & Co, founded in 1824, and headed by Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury. Lord Ailebsury became a partner at Fiske & Co, and later joined the board when it became a limited company. Although the merger was of the two equal partners, ''

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'' reported that the new concern opted to take the name of Fiske. Following the acquisition of all older firms such as Quilter & Co, founded in 1777, Cazenove & Co and James Capel & Co, both founded in 1823, the merged business became the oldest independent stockbroking house in the City of London today. Fiske grew to almost a billion pounds under investment, becoming a publicly listed company in 2000, Fiske plc, and due to its then CEO's sceptical investment policy during the

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of the late 90s, it was named the top British stockbroker by the financial news service

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in 2000. In 2009, during the

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, the City Editor of ''

'' commented: "One person whose views I respect is Clive Fiske Harrison who runs Fiske & Co, the stockbroker. He 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." In 2012, the City Editor of the ''

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'' wrote, "50 years ago today Fiske’s chairman, Clive, joined Panmure Gordon, then one of the leading brokers. A fellow junior colleague in Panmure at that time was David Mayhew. He, like Clive, has survived the intervening years of change rather better than has Panmure. (Mayhew stood down as chairman of J. P. Morgan Cazenove at the end of last year.)" Having begun at Bache & Co., now Prudential-Bache Securities, in New York in 1961 under Harold L. Bache – to whose advice on weathering financial storms like the Wall Street crash of 1929 he referred during more subsequent crises – followed by working at

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in Tokyo, before joining Pannmure Gordon in London and then Fiske, Clive retired on his 84th birthday in 2023 after more than 62 years in the markets.

Family

According to '' Burke's'', he is a relation of Major

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, and himself resides in the nearby village of

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and also in

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, London. He has three sons. His son Jules was, according to ''

'', a "famously skilled and fearless skier" who died in a skiing accident in Zermatt, Switzerland in 1988Coren, Giles
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''The Times''. 21 March 2009 and his son

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is an author and

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References

External links

Fiske Plc Website

Fiske Harrison Family website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Clive Fiske 1939 births Living people Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge English investment bankers English investors English money managers English stockbrokers People educated at Felsted School