Did you know that almost £12bn of assets are managed from Liverpool in the form of 64,500 private portfolios?

I had always known that Liverpool had a firm foothold in financial services, but those two facts delivered by Liverpool Council chief executive Colin Hilton in a presentation on the Liverpool stand at MIPIM really bring it home.

The city has the largest wealth management and stock brocking sector in the UK outside London.

The trick now is creating more wealth in Liverpool and the region itself.