For half a century, he was senior partner, then chief executive and latterly chairman of Fiske plc, the oldest remaining independent stockbroking firm in the City of London.
[1] [2] According to Debrett's, Fiske Harrison was educated at Felsted School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[3] and worked at Panmure Gordon, as a stockbroker, alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron's father Ian Cameron, before joining Fiske & Co in the early 1970s.
[citation needed] In 1975, Fiske & Co merged with stockbrokers Bragg, Stockdale, Hall & Co, founded in 1824, and headed by Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury.
In a letter to clients and friends just before Christmas he warned that the market's reaction to the present problems was still relatively modest in the context of past crises and almost certainly had further to go.
"[8] Three years later the City Editor of the Evening Standard congratulated him on his half century, pointing out that he had joined Panmure Gordon at the same time as the famously long serving David Mayhew who became chairman of Cazenove & Co, later J.P. Morgan Cazenove, but even he had retired the year before.