Inside Robey Warshaw, the firm that will make George Osborne very rich The former Chancellor is abandoning his portfolio career to join a boutique advisory firm that has helped broker multi-billion pound deals 2 February 2021 • 12:36pm George Osborne will give up roles at BlackRock and the Evening Standard to join the Mayfair-based advisory firm When Morgan Stanley banker Simon Robey was asked by The Telegraph in 2005 if investment bankers make too much money, he admitted that maybe in the “boom years of 1999 to 2000, it was a little too easy” to get rich. “I think those days are probably gone,” he said, years after falling into banking by accident. He wanted to be a professional singer, but Lazard was pitching itself to students in the room next door to the cabaret he was performing in at Oxford so he popped in and got a job with the investment bank instead.