Impax stock crashes on profit warning after St James’s Place loss April 8, 2025 Impax Asset Management’s stock price has crashed more than 15 per cent after issuing a profit warning thanks to its falling assets. The asset manager reported a 26 per cent decline in assets under management after losing a £5.1bn mandate from St James’s Place. The £8.8bn drop over the last three months was in large [...]
Liontrust dividend ‘increasingly at risk’ warns RBC April 3, 2025 Liontrust is “increasingly at risk” of running out of money to pay its dividend, an investment bank has warned, as the asset manager struggles to keep investors from withdrawing their cash. In a research note, RBC analysts cut expectations for Liontrust’s adjusted profit before tax by one per cent for 2025, 14 per cent for [...]
Analysts upgrade Schroders stock amid cost-cutting drive March 20, 2025 RBC analysts have upgraded their Schroders’ stock price target after accounting for the group’s recently announced cost-cutting drive. Analysts at the bank upgraded Schroders’ target price from 395p to 475p, while it is currently trading at 379p, having surged 17 per cent since the start of 2025. The cost-cutting plan came as Schroders issued its [...]
M&G slumps to loss as outflows accelerate March 19, 2025 M&G has reported a jump in outflows for 2024. The insurer and asset manager reported outflows of £9.5bn throughout 2024, compared to £4.7bn in 2023, it revealed in its annual results. Outflows were recorded from every arm of the firm. Its traditional Life business was hit hardest, with outflows of £4.8bn during the year. Meanwhile, [...]
Legal & General: FTSE 100 giant hikes shareholder returns after strong year March 12, 2025 Asset management and insurance giant Legal & General has reported a six per cent increase in core operating profit for 2024. Core operating profit hit £1.6bn and pre-tax profit under IFRS accounting standards stood at £542m. Off the back of these robust numbers Legal & General announced a £500m share buyback for 2025, as part [...]
Quilter hikes dividend as ongoing advice review drags on March 5, 2025 Asset management firm Quilter has reported a 17 per cent rise in adjusted profit to £196m for 2024, alongside a two-percentage-point improvement in its operating margin to 29 per cent. The wealth management firm, which provides advice and investment solutions across the high net worth and affluent market segments, recorded net inflows of £4.8bn. This [...]
St James’s Place swings to annual profit February 27, 2025 St James’s Place swung to a profit in its annual results as the firm’s turnaround efforts continued to yield results. Britain’s largest wealth manager recorded a £398.4m pre-tax profit, compared to the loss of £9.9m the year prior. Gross inflows for the year totalled £18.4bn, compared to £15.4bn in 2023. Total assets under management at [...]
Ashmore: Emerging markets giant stock jumps after beating expectations February 7, 2025 Emerging markets specialist Ashmore has once again beaten expectations despite recording yet more outflows, leading its stock price to rise 1.6 per cent. The FTSE 250 money manager’s half-year results revealed adjusted operating profit totalled £33.7m over the last six months of 2024, compared to the £31m forecast by analysts. Assets under management stood at $48.8bn (£39.2bn) [...]
Wonks think a wave of asset management mergers is inevitable January 22, 2025 Across the European continent, a surge of mergers and acquisitions among asset managers has begun. Yesterday, Italian and French giants Generali and Natixis agreed to a €1.9 trillion (£1.61 trillion) merger to create the second largest asset manager in Europe. Meanwhile, BNP Paribas recently bought out AXA’s investment arm, and rumours continue to swirl about [...]
Abrdn: Scottish asset manager makes turnaround on flows January 21, 2025 Abrdn has reported “significant progress” on managing to keep hold of investor cash, as the Scottish asset manager continues on its cost cutting plan. The firm received £2.3bn into its institutional and retail wealth arm over the last quarter, pushing up 2024 to a positive year for new cash, it revealed in a trading update [...]