we’re mbf. one market, fourteen years.

mbf started in 2012 with a decision that has not changed since: we recruit in financial planning and asset management, and nowhere else. No generalists, no second sector, no pivot.

Fourteen years in one market is how you learn what a job is actually worth, which firms move quickly and which take three months, and which candidate will take the offer rather than use it as leverage. It is not a claim you can make after a year.

It shows up in small ways. We publish what the market pays instead of keeping it in a PDF you have to ask for. We tell a candidate who the client is before anything is sent. And you deal with the consultant who did the search, not an account manager reading their notes.