Frank Investments, the wealth manager run by Paul Sedgwick, has stepped up its search for clients worth £500,000 or more by taking on fund management stalwart Baron Michael Bruntisfield as a consultant.

Before inheriting his peerage in 2007, Bruntisfield was known to the asset management world as Mickey Warrender. He carved out his early reputation as a fund marketer at Robert Fleming Investment Management, which he joined in 1986 and where he was a director prior to the firm's takeover by JP Morgan in 2001.