Money Makers

Hugh Yarrow co-founded Evenlode Investment Management in 2009 with his brother-in-law Ben Peters after spending the early part of his career at the wealth management firm Rathbones.  Unusually, but far from unsuccessfully, rather than operate from the normal City, Edinburgh or another urban location, it is run from a converted barn in the Cotswolds. The firm has around £5 billion under management and 26 employees. Disclosure: I have been an investor in Evenlode Equity Income, its largest fund, for several years.

The £3.6 billion Evenlode Equity Income fund, which is managed by Hugh Yarrow, ha...