The speed with which Kinetic Partners has established itself as a leading provider of professional services to the investment industry is quite remarkable. From a standing start as a joint venture with independent tax consultancy Chiltern in March 2005, the firm now has locations in London, New York, Dublin, the Cayman Islands and Geneva from which it services around 450 clients. Kinetic Partners is focused on providing advisory and consultancy services to the asset management industry - in both the traditional and alternative sectors - with particular expertise in audit and assurance, tax, regulatory compliance consulting, technology, corporate finance and forensic investigations.
Even though the image of chartered accountancy has come a long way since it was lampooned as a profession by the Monty Python team in the 1970s, many people still have little appreciation of the scope of services and business advice that today’s firms provide.
But RMT has set out to change this – not just from the services perspective but also by breaking free from the ‘zero personality’ stereotype of accountants and carrying out an extensive re-branding exercise. Dull is out for the Newcastle-upon-Tyne based firm, from its striking new website, to its corporate colours, to its strapline ‘real people account for more’.
UHY Farrelly Dawe White works hard at maintaining its position as one of the largest CPA firms in Ireland - not just by ensuring that it delivers the highest quality of services but also that the relationships between FDW’s people and their clients are as good as the can get.
Former ICPA President and Managing Partner of the firm, Alan Farrelly, emphasises the firm’s focus on client relationships: “Every business is unique and has different requirements,” he says, “and we welcome the challenge of matching our services to our clients’ needs, working in partnership to help maximise their profitability and business efficiency.”
FDW is a five-partner practice with 4 offices and 50 staff
Hardly a day goes by without some aspect of pensions making headline news. The impact of compliance, legislation, and tax on fund values; scheme funding shortfalls; proposals to extend the retirement age; closure of final salary schemes to new members; and the inexorable drift to ‘more affordable’ money purchase alternatives – all are grist to the mill at actuarial and pension consultants, Cartwright Consulting Ltd.
Cartwright Consulting Ltd Director, Robin Pearce, explained that the firm was incorporated in 1999 to build on the success of I.S. Cartwright & Company, which was itself founded in 1986.
Cartwright Consulting has a staff of 24
Established in 1876, PF&K – Penrith Farmers’ and Kidd’s plc – is one of the leading firms of land and estate agents, surveyors and auctioneers in Cumbria, serving clients from offices in Penrith, Appleby, Keswick and Kirkby Stephen.
The firm is organised on a divisional basis, covering land agency, residential estate agency and valuation, residential letting and management, commercial agency and valuation, and planning consultancy. There is also a division focused on fine art, antique and furniture sales.
When Parfrey Murphy was in its infancy back in the early 1980s, partners Seamus Parfrey and Noel Murphy knew all of their clients very well indeed. They could easily remember every phone conversation and which letters had been sent and received, together with the precise progress of every client job. They also knew their clients’ businesses intimately – how they were performing, their successes and setbacks.
These very close client relationships – together with a reputation for high quality services and scrupulous attention to detail – were instrumental in helping Parfrey Murphy to expand over the years, to the point where it is one of the largest firms of professional accountants in County Cork.
