Q1 New Business Inflows and Funds Under Management.


    24 April 2025 07:01:24
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St. James's Place PLC
24 April 2025
 

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PRESS RELEASE

 

24 April 2025

 

 ST. JAMES'S PLACE DELIVERS A STRONG START TO THE YEAR

 

St. James's Place plc ('SJP') today issues an update on new business inflows and funds under management for the three months ended 31 March 2025.

 


Q1 2025

Q1 2024


£'Billion

£'Billion

Gross inflows

5.14

3.97

Net inflows

1.69

0.71

Closing funds under management

188.59

179.04

 

 


Funds under management retention rate (annualised)1

95.0%

94.6%

Net inflows/opening funds under management (annualised)

3.6%

1.7%

1 Throughout this press release our retention rate is calculated allowing for surrenders and part-surrenders. It excludes regular income withdrawals and maturities.

 

Mark FitzPatrick, Chief Executive Officer, commented:

"I am pleased to report another strong quarter for new business, once again demonstrating the strength of our advice-led business model and the trusted relationships our advisers build with clients. The external environment has been uncertain, but our advisers have reassured clients and helped them remain focused on their long-term financial goals and aspirations. Engagement levels have been high, and this has resulted in £5.1 billion of new client investments during the quarter. Retention of funds under management remained strong at 95.0%, supporting net inflows of £1.7 billion. A decline in global markets during the quarter impacted our funds under management, which closed the period at £188.6 billion.

 

We continue to make substantial progress with our three key programmes of work. We will be implementing our simple, comparable charging structure over the summer, and our work to review historic client servicing records and implement our cost and efficiency programme continues to move forward.

 

We are pleased to have built momentum in new business in recent quarters, and we have continued to see good levels of client engagement and activity so far in April. Looking forward, macroeconomic uncertainty and market volatility create a challenging environment for savers and investors, but one which underlines the value that trusted financial advice delivers to clients. Our advisers continue to help clients navigate these conditions and stay on track to achieve their long-term financial goals and aspirations. We have a long history of net inflows during all phases of the economic cycle, and the quality of the Partnership and the strength of our advice-led business model positions us well for the future."

 

The details of the announcement are attached.

 

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Enquiries:

Hugh Taylor, Director - Investor Relations

Tel: 07818 075143

Angela Warburton, Director - External Communications

Tel: 07912 281502

 

Brunswick Group:

 

Tel: 020 7404 5959

Eilis Murphy

Charles Pretzlik

Email: sjp@brunswickgroup.com  

 

 

 

Contents

 

1.     Funds under management

2.     Analysis of funds under management

3.     EEV net asset value per share

 

 

1. Funds under management

 

Three months ended 31 March 2025

Investment

Pension

UT/ISA and DFM

Total

£'Billion

£'Billion

£'Billion

£'Billion

Opening FUM

39.18 

101.98 

49.05 

190.21 

Gross inflows

0.74 

3.14 

1.26 

5.14 

Net investment return

(0.53)

(1.96)

(0.82)

(3.31)

Regular income withdrawals and maturities

(0.08)

(0.99)

(1.07)

Surrenders and part-surrenders

(0.53)

(0.89)

(0.96)

(2.38)

Closing FUM

38.78 

101.28 

48.53 

188.59 

Net inflows/(outflows)

0.13 

1.26 

0.30 

1.69 

Implied surrender rate as a percentage of average FUM

5.4%

3.5%

7.9%

5.0%

 

Three months ended 31 March 2024

Investment

Pension

UT/ISA and DFM

Total

£'Billion

£'Billion

£'Billion

£'Billion

Opening FUM

35.99 

87.32 

44.89 

168.20 

Gross inflows

0.47 

2.61 

0.89 

3.97 

Net investment return

1.92 

5.55 

2.66 

10.13 

Regular income withdrawals and maturities

(0.11)

(0.82)

(0.93)

Surrenders and part-surrenders

(0.55)

(0.72)

(1.06)

(2.33)

Closing FUM

37.72 

93.94 

47.38 

179.04 

Net inflows/(outflows)

(0.19)

1.07 

(0.17)

0.71 

Implied surrender rate as a percentage of average FUM

6.0%

3.2%

9.2%

5.4%

 

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2. Analysis of funds under management

 

The table below provides a geographical and investment-type analysis of FUM at 31 March.

 


31 March 2025

31 March 2024

£'Billion

Percentage

of total

£'Billion

Percentage

of total

North American equities

71.3

38%

64.9

36%

Fixed income securities

32.0

17%

28.1

16%

European equities

25.7

13%

25.3

14%

Asia and Pacific equities

23.9

12%

21.8

12%

UK equities

16.6

9%

15.7

9%

Cash

7.4

4%

7.0

4%

Alternative investments

5.6

3%

9.9

5%

Other

5.1

3%

4.6

3%

Property

1.0

1%

1.7

1%

Total

188.6

100%

179.0

100%

 

 

3. EEV net asset value per share

 

The net asset value on the European Embedded Value basis at 31 March 2025 was approximately £16.28 per share (cum div) and approximately £16.16 per share after the payment of the proposed final dividend on 23 May 2025.

 

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