Brooks Macdonald Group PLC Quarterly Announcement of FUM and Trading Update

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Brooks Macdonald Group PLC

17 July 2024

 

17 July 2024

 

BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC

 

Quarterly Announcement of FUM and Trading Update

 

Notice of Full Year results

 

"FUM up 7.0% over FY24 to £18.0 billion, with full year results expected to be in line with market expectations"

 

Brooks Macdonald Group plc ("Brooks Macdonald" or the "Group") today publishes a trading update and its quarterly announcement of Funds under Management ("FUM") for the fourth quarter of its financial year ended 30 June 2024.

 

Andrew Shepherd, CEO of Brooks Macdonald commented:

"I am pleased to report that FUM increased to £18.0 billion. We remained dedicated to serving our clients in a changing economic environment. This focus resulted in strong gross inflows, with high demand for wealth management services that provide solutions through the entire investor lifecycle. Outflows have remained elevated but with a more certain political backdrop, lower inflation and the increased likelihood of a reduction in interest rates, we anticipate that these will moderate. We will stay focused on meeting our clients' investment needs."  

 

Quarterly Announcement of Funds under Management

The Group recorded net outflows in the quarter of £0.2 billion, which was an improvement on the prior quarter, and was more than offset by positive investment performance, resulting in closing FUM of £18.0 billion (31 March 2024: £17.9 billion).  

Highlights in the quarter included:

·    Group gross inflows in the fourth quarter were £623 million, the highest of any quarter in the financial year, reflecting strong client demand for our broad proposition set.

·    Platform MPS, including the Group's B2B offering for financial advisers, BM Investment Solutions ("BMIS"), grew to £4.4 billion (31 March 2024: £4.2 billion) with annualised organic net new business in the quarter of 13.0% of opening FUM.

·    BPS experienced net outflows in the quarter of £0.2 billion or 7.1% on an annualised basis (FY24 Q3: £0.2 billion or 9.6%). BPS gross inflows increased by 33.1% in the fourth quarter as clients added funds to our specialist products.

·    Investment performance for the quarter was relatively strong at 1.4%, ahead of the benchmark¹ which increased by 1.1% in the period.

 

Full Year Trading Update

For the financial year ended 30 June 2024, the Group experienced net outflows of £0.6 billion or 3.7%, in line with guidance.  Investment performance contributed £1.8 billion, leading to overall growth in the Group's closing FUM of 7.0% from the start of the financial year to £18.0 billion (30 June 2023: £16.8 billion).

Trading performance in the second half was solid, and the Group anticipates its full year results to be in line with market expectations.

In June 2024, the Group announced the retirement of Andrew Shepherd as Group CEO and the appointment of Andrea Montague in this role from 1 October 2024, subject to regulatory approval.

The Group will report full year results and the outcome of the strategic review of the International business on 12 September 2024.

 

Analysis of FUM net flows by service over the quarter

 

Quarter to 30 June 2024 (£m)
	Opening FUM 1 Apr 24	Organic net new business	Investment performance in the period	Closing FUM 30 Jun 24	Organic net new business	Total mvmt
BPS	8,913	(158)	125	8,880	(1.8)%	(0.4)%
MPS Custody	989	(25)	10	974	(2.5)%	(1.5)%
MPS Platform	4,164	135	68	4,367	3.2%	4.9%
MPS total	5,153	110	78	5,341	2.1%	3.6%
UKIM discretionary	14,066	(48)	203	14,221	(0.3)%	1.1%
Funds	1,587	(76)	34	1,545	(4.8)%	(2.6)%
UKIM total	15,653	(124)	237	15,766	(0.8)%	0.7%
International	2,274	(30)	18	2,262	(1.3)%	(0.5)%
Total	17,927	(154)	255	18,028	(0.9)%	0.6%
Total investment performance					1.4%
MSCI PIMFA Private Investor Balanced Index1					1.1%

 

Analysis of FUM net flows by service over the twelve months

 

Twelve months to 30 June 2024 (£m)
	Opening FUM	Organic net new business					Total Inv. Perf.	Closing FUM	Organic net new business	Total mvmt
	1 Jul 23	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total	FY	30 Jun 24	FY	FY
BPS	8,527	(98)	(94)	(205)	(158)	(555)	908	8,880	(6.5)%	4.1%
MPS Custody	966	(14)	(21)	(20)	(25)	(80)	88	974	(8.3)%	0.8%
MPS Platform	3,489	147	121	65	135	468	410	4,367	13.4%	25.2%
MPS total	4,455	133	100	45	110	388	498	5,341	8.7%	19.9%
UKIM discretionary	12,982	35	6	(160)	(48)	(167)	1,406	14,221	(1.3)%	9.5%
Funds	1,708	(78)	(71)	(112)	(76)	(337)	174	1,545	(19.7)%	(9.5)%
UKIM total	14,690	(43)	(65)	(272)	(124)	(504)	1,580	15,766	(3.4)%	7.3%
International	2,157	(27)	(33)	(22)	(30)	(112)	217	2,262	(5.2)%	4.9%
Total	16,847	(70)	(98)	(294)	(154)	(616)	1,797	18,028	(3.7)%	7.0%
Total investment performance									10.7%
MSCI PIMFA Private Investor Balanced Index1									11.4%

¹ MSCI PIMFA Private Investor Balanced Index, a capital-only index.

 

 

Analysis of FUM gross flows by service over the twelve months

 

Twelve months to 30 June 2024 (£m)
	Organic gross inflows					Q4 vs Q3		Organic gross outflows						Q4 vs Q3
	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total YTD	Inc/(dec)	Q1		Q2	Q3	Q4	Total YTD	Inc/(dec)
BPS	192	173	139	185	689	33.1%	(290)		(267)	(344)	(343)	(1,244)	(0.3)%
MPS Custody	15	15	19	21	70	10.5%	(29)		(36)	(39)	(46)	(150)	17.9%
MPS Platform	276	317	281	325	1,199	15.7%	(129)		(196)	(216)	(190)	(731)	(12.0)%
MPS total	291	332	300	346	1,269	15.3%	(158)		(232)	(255)	(236)	(881)	(7.5)%
UKIM discretionary	483	505	439	531	1,958	21.0%	(448)		(499)	(599)	(579)	(2,125)	(3.3)%
Funds	55	52	57	58	222	1.8%	(133)		(123)	(169)	(134)	(559)	(20.7)%
UKIM total	538	557	496	589	2,180	18.8%	(581)		(622)	(768)	(713)	(2,684)	(7.2)%
International	44	34	38	34	150	(10.5)%	(71)		(67)	(60)	(64)	(262)	6.7%
Total	582	591	534	623	2,330	16.7%	(652)		(689)	(828)	(777)	(2,946)	(6.2)%

 

 

 

Notice of Full Year results

The Group intends to announce its results for the year ended 30 June 2024 on Thursday 12 September 2024.

 

Enquiries to:

Brooks Macdonald Group plc Andrew Shepherd, CEO Andrea Montague, Chief Financial Officer		www.brooksmacdonald.com 020 7927 4816
Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Charles Leigh-Pemberton / James Moat		020 7496 3000
Investec Bank plc (Joint Broker) Chris Baird / David Anderson		020 7597 5970
FTI Consulting Katie Bell	[e-mail] 07976 870961

 

Notes to editors

Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides leading wealth management services in the UK and internationally. The Group, which was founded in 1991 and began trading on AIM in 2005, had discretionary Funds under Management of £18.0 billion as at 30 June 2024.

Brooks Macdonald offers outsourced discretionary investment management for intermediaries and advice-led integrated wealth management for private clients. The Group also acts as fund manager to a range of onshore and international funds.

The Group has fourteen offices across the UK and Crown Dependencies including London, Birmingham, East Anglia, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Nuneaton, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Scotland, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man.

Forward-looking statements

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Except as required by any applicable law or regulation, Brooks Macdonald expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement or any other forward-looking statements it may make whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

 

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