Tag Archives: St James Place

It’s time to stop sneering at St. James’s Place

Posted on July 29, 2021 by henry tapper

St. James’s Place released their half yearly results yesterday and the market responded by marking up their shares 5%. The results told us that SJP had added nearly £10bn to funds under management and that operating profit had shot up. … Continue reading →

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5 good reasons we have SJP

Posted on September 10, 2019 by henry tapper

As readers of the Times know,  James Coney has been exposing St James’s Place as a high pressure sales outfit that rewards its “advisers” with diamond cufflinks, overseas conventions and a lot of money for bringing client’s money under SJP … Continue reading →

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How contingent fees underpin SJP’s shareholder value.

Posted on August 1, 2019 by henry tapper

The last two days have not been kind to St James Place, on Tuesday it was presented with the FCA’s CP19/25 and PS19/21 and yesterday it had to face the wrath of the market which marked its shares down 5% … Continue reading →

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The problem with platforms (is that everyone loves them).

Posted on August 14, 2018 by henry tapper

Platforms are a relatively new but significant and growing distribution channel. The platform service provider market has doubled since 2013 from £250bn to £500bnassets under administration (AUA). This growth in AUA has been driven by rising markets and increasing levels … Continue reading →

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“Ease of use” or “value for money”?

Posted on April 27, 2017 by henry tapper

Paul Lewis, above all other financial journalists is the master of the 140 character tweet. Here is one of his very best, embedded in a conversation with Louise Cooper. The genius is in the “compete mainly on rhetoric and ease … Continue reading →

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Why Martin Bamford is right to stay an independent financial adviser

Posted on March 13, 2017 by henry tapper

SJP – we have been here before Martin Bamford has produced an excellent piece explaining why everyone he knows “loves to  hate St James’ Place” . It turns out that quite a few people Martin knows work for St James’ … Continue reading →

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Help of the helpless – the destitute world of the GAA

Posted on April 17, 2016 by henry tapper

    The words of the song are apt for the Governance Advisory Arrangements I have read. With the exception of that of Mobius they are either elegies for what might have been or a convenient way of getting round … Continue reading →

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