The Mercer: with Robert Talbut, chief investment officer, Royal London Asset Management

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The Mercer: with Robert Talbut, chief investment officer, Royal London Asset Management

The Mercers were the grandest of the City Livery Companies. The power and wealth of the cloth merchants of ye olde Englande can still be seen today. They left behind magnificent churches such as St Peter and St Paul in Lavenham, Suffolk, and much more besides. There is also a school called St Paul’s, apparently, in a suburb of west London.

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