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 [...]
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 [...]
St James’s Place shutters property funds amid sector downturn November 27, 2024 St James’s Place has begun to wind down its three property funds as the sector struggles to make it past the blows it sustained during the coronavirus pandemic. The three funds, which operate as unit trusts, pension and life funds, will shutter over the next two years, with regular payouts to investors in the funds. [...]
St James’s Place continues exec shakeup with new chief risk officer November 12, 2024 St James’s Place has continued its shakeup of senior staff with a new chief risk officer as Britain’s biggest wealth manager works to rebuild credibility. Chief risk officer Mark Sutton, who had worked at the firm for the last seven years, represents the third executive to depart in just over a year. A St James’s [...]
St James’s Place: More changes in mandates to come, CIO says October 25, 2024 There will continue to be a significant shake-up in who manages some of the biggest funds at the UK's largest wealth manager, the chief investment officer of St James's Place has told City AM.
St James’s Place ditches manager of lagging £9.9bn fund October 22, 2024 St James’s Place has ditched one of the managers of a struggling £9.9bn fund as Britain’s biggest wealth manager looks to recover from a troubling year and deliver more value for its customers. Impax, which has co-managed St James’s Place Global Quality Unit Trust since 2021 alongside five other investment houses, has been dropped by [...]