St James’s Place fund in the doghouse over underperformance February 21, 2025 St James’s Place’s Global Quality Fund has retained its spot as the largest fund to be consistently underperforming after falling 26 per cent below its benchmark over the last three years. The report from Bestinvest, which identified the funds in the ‘doghouse’ due to persistent underperformance, found 137 funds struggling to match their peers. Despite the [...]
St James’s Place investors brace for results as Citi upgrades stock February 18, 2025 St James’s Place investors are gearing up for the release of the wealth manager’s full-year results next week as Citi analysts have upgraded their price target for the stock. In a note yesterday, Citi analysts upgraded the stock’s price target from 1,080p to 1,280p compared to the current share price of 1,130p. “Our funds under [...]
Fundsmith: UK’s biggest fund overtaken by St James’s Place February 11, 2025 Fundsmith Equity, which has been the largest investment fund in the UK for more than five years, has finally been overtaken by St James’s Place. St James’s Place’s Polaris 3, one of the funds in the wealth manager’s multi-asset range, became the first in the UK to reach £30bn in assets at the end of [...]
UK property: Why funds are ditching the direct investing model February 11, 2025 One of the last UK funds that invests directly in property is ditching its investment model in favour of a hybrid plan. The new mixed model will see the £112.6m TIME Commercial Long Income property fund holding a combination of assets directly with some real estate investment trust (REIT) shares. 90 per cent of the [...]
St James’s Place and Next help FTSE 100 to another all-time high January 31, 2025 The FTSE 100 has hit another all-time high this morning, with the index up five per cent since the start of 2025. London’s main index rose 0.46 per cent this morning before dropping back slightly, while the more domestically focused FTSE 250 jumped 0.53 per cent. “Given the volatility this week on Wall Street as [...]
St James’s Place: Britain’s biggest wealth manager has stock upgraded January 30, 2025 City broker Peel Hunt has upgraded St James’s Place this morning, after a strong set of results and a surge in share price. Britain’s biggest wealth manager reported £4.3bn in new money throughout 2024 this morning, sending its stock price up more than eight per cent to more than £10. The bump came from £1.5bn [...]
St James’s Place: Stock price jumps after new money surge January 30, 2025 St James’s Place brought in £4.3bn in new money throughout 2024, bringing its total assets under management to a record £190.2bn. Britain’s largest wealth manager attracted £1.5bn of new money over the last quarter of the year, it said in a trading update, 70 per cent ahead of expectations. The firm’s pension arm brought in [...]
St James’s Place: Impax slumps following mandate losses January 9, 2025 Impax’s stock price has sunk even further after revealing the damage that the loss of fund management mandates from St James’s Place has done to its business. Assets under management at the environmental-focused money manager fell eight per cent over the quarter, the firm revealed in a trading update on Thursday. After falling by more [...]
How St James’s Place is changing its opulent image December 9, 2024 St James’s Place is working to overhaul the ‘cruise and cufflink’ image that it has long been saddled with, including dropping its annual conference for advisers at the 20,000-capacity O2 Arena. The wealth manager giant, which will be re-promoted to the FTSE 100 later this month, has dropped the opulent gathering with its 4,852 advisers [...]
St James’s Place readies redundancies in cost-cutting push December 2, 2024 St James’s Place is set to make around 500 redundancies next year as part of its sweeping cost-cutting plan, according to reports. Around a sixth of the wealth manager’s non-financial adviser workforce are set to be laid off in February, an internal memo, seen by Citywire, revealed. Over the summer, St James’s Place revealed it [...]