The team of analysts is led by Simon Flather and Lucy Clapham

Simon Flather FCA FCSI Simon is a Chartered Accountant, having qualified with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG) in 1981. He also worked as a stockbroker with Rensburg, becoming a partner of the firm in 1986 before leaving to form Independent Financial Publications in 1993.

Lucy Clapham ACSI Lucy is a partner in Independent Financial Publications (‘IFP’), a business regulated and authorised by the FSA. IFP has three strands – cityconfidential, brokerlink and themarketfocus. Lucy worked at Hambros Bank in its corporate finance division for eight years before joining Redmayne-Bentley, a leading independent firm of stockbrokers, in 1998. In partnership with Simon Flather, she owns the Ilkley office of Redmayne-Bentley which continues to see its funds under management grow. Lucy is also Chairman of the Board of Governors at Moorfield School for Girls in Ilkley.

Both the partners have considerable experience of private client stockbroking and, as a result, are extremely well-placed to judge the amount of detail which should be in a short briefing note such as those prepared by brokerlink.

Chris Bragg BA (Hons) MCSI – Lead Analyst

Chris has worked as a private client stockbroker since 2003. He previously worked in corporate finance for Old Mutual Securities in Manchester and holds a degree in Economics from the University of Leeds.

Sarah Mann – Customer Liaison

Sarah has worked at brokerlink for over three years. Prior to that Sarah worked in secretarial/administrative roles in the construction sector and also at KPMG, the international accountancy firm. Her role is to offer administrative support to the analysts whilst also liaising with brokerlink’s clients.