James Hambro & Partners hires portfolio manager from Brooks Macdonald Senior investment director Robert Seifert leaves Brooks Macdonald after 10 years Brooks Macdonald senior investment director Robert Seifert is leaving the firm after 10 years to become a portfolio manager at James Hambro & Partners (JH&P). Seifert will be supporting the professional adviser community in his new role at the London-based wealth manager. Before joining Brooks Macdonald, he was a private client investment manager at Cheviot and headed up the firm’s wealth management proposition to sportsmen. It comes after JH&P appointed Aberdeen Standard Capital’s Ed Binks for its Leeds office in March at the same time as hiring Helen Rynhoud as head of marketing from C Hoare & Co.