The partnership · Est. 1998
Two founders, one standard, held for more than a quarter of a century.
Rockford & Ellington was not built to be the largest firm in the room. It was built to be the one a serious client could trust with the part of their capital that matters most.
Fortis et Fidelis
Strong and faithful
The bull on our crest is not bravado. It is a promise to meet the market with strength and to meet our clients with our word.
Every mandate the partnership has ever accepted has been governed by the same idea: that trust is earned in the quiet years and spent in the loud ones. We manage capital so that when the loud years come, we have credit to draw on.
Client assets under administration
Founded in the City of London
Institutional & private clients
Markets accessed across five continents
The founders
The two names on the door still sit on the desk.
Edward Rockford
Co-Founder & Chairman
Twenty-six years on institutional trading desks across London and Hong Kong before founding the firm. Edward built the partnership around a single conviction: that disciplined execution, not forecasting, compounds client capital.
E. Rockford
Charles Ellington
Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer
A former head of macro strategy who has authored the firm's research voice since inception. Charles oversees the investment committee and the philosophy that every position must survive its own worst case.
C. Ellington
Heritage
A quarter century, recorded honestly.
Edward Rockford and Charles Ellington open the partnership in the City of London with eleven clients and one trading desk.
The firm establishes its Foundation, pledging one percent of revenue to children's education and health, in perpetuity.
A New York office opens; the partnership crosses two billion dollars in client assets under administration.
The cross-venue arbitrage engine goes live, formalising two decades of execution discipline into a single system.
Thirty-one billion dollars administered for more than nine thousand private and institutional clients across thirty-seven markets.
The desk
The people who answer when you call.
Priya Anand
Head of Execution
Leads the cross-venue execution desk and the arbitrage engine that underpins client fills.
Daniel Whitmore
Head of FX Strategy
Currency strategist covering G10 and selective emerging markets for the private client book.
Sofia Reyes
Head of Private Clients
Builds bespoke mandates for family offices and high-net-worth individuals across Europe.
Since 2006
1% of our revenue belongs to children, not to us.
One percent of firm revenue, every year, directed to the education and health of children who would otherwise go without.