Quarterly Announcement of Funds under Management

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Brooks Macdonald Group PLC
13 October 2022
 

13 October 2022

 

BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC

 

Quarterly Announcement of Funds under Management

 

"Continued strong positive net flows in Q1"

 

Brooks Macdonald Group plc ("Brooks Macdonald" or "the Group") today publishes an update on its Funds under Management ("FUM") for the first quarter of its financial year, the three months ended 30 September 2022.

 

During the first quarter of the financial year, the Group recorded positive net flows of £0.2 billion, with continued momentum in new business against a backdrop of volatile markets.  The further decline in global markets at the end of September offset the positive net flows leading to a 0.9% decrease in the Group's closing FUM to £15.5 billion (30 June 2022: £15.7 billion).

 

Highlights for the quarter included:

 

· The Group delivered strong positive net flows, continuing the trend reported in prior quarters and achieving an annualised rate of 4.9%, in line with the previous financial year.

 

· UKIM discretionary FUM had positive net flows of £0.2 billion (an annualised rate of 8.1%), driven by MPS Platform, which saw an annualised net flow rate of 47.3%.  MPS Platform includes the Group's business-to-business offering, BM Investment Solutions.

 

· Overall investment performance for the quarter recorded a reduction of £0.3 billion or 2.1%, ahead of the MSCI PIMFA Private Investor Balanced Index which declined by 3.6% in the period.

 

While the pipeline for FY23 remains robust, market conditions are resulting in some clients taking longer to commit funds.

 

Andrew Shepherd, CEO of Brooks Macdonald commented:

 

"Despite the difficult political and economic conditions in our first quarter, net flows were running at an annualised 4.9% - an excellent result, continuing the trend seen in the previous financial year.

 

"Given the challenging backdrop, high quality financial advice and robust long-term investment management are needed now more than ever.  Our net flows for this quarter are a credit to everyone at Brooks Macdonald, who engaged actively with our clients and intermediaries to support them in navigating these volatile markets.

 

"We remain confident in our expectations for new business flows and in the Group's ability to deliver our ambitious growth strategy."



 

Analysis of fund flows by service over the quarter

 

Quarter to 30 September 2022 (£m)

 

Opening FUM

1 Jul 22

Organic net new business

Investment performance in the period

Closing FUM

30 Sep 22

Organic net new business

Total mvmt

BPS

8,581

(6)

(231)

8,344

(0.1)%

(2.8)%

MPS Custody

960

(3)

(9)

948

(0.3)%

(1.2)%

MPS Platform

2,053

243

(34)

2,262

11.8%

10.2%

MPS total

3,013

240

(43)

3,210

8.0%

6.5%

UKIM discretionary

11,594

234

(274)

11,554

2.0%

(0.3)%

Funds - DCF

439

(14)

(18)

407

(3.2)%

(7.3)%

Funds - Other

1,418

(20)

6

1,404

(1.4)%

(1.0)%

Funds total

1,857

(34)

(12)

1,811

(1.8)%

(2.5)%

UKIM total

13,451

200

(286)

13,365

1.5%

(0.6)%

International

2,216

(9)

(48)

2,159

(0.4)%

(2.6)%

Total

15,667

191

(334)

15,524

1.2%

(0.9)%

 

Total investment performance

(2.1)%

MSCI PIMFA Private Investor Balanced Index1

(3.6)%

 

1 Capital-only index.

 

 

Enquiries to:

Brooks Macdonald Group plc

Andrew Shepherd, CEO

Ben Thorpe, CFO

 

www.brooksmacdonald.com

020 7659 3492

Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Paul Shackleton / Andrew Buchanan / John Welch

 

020 7418 8900

FTI Consulting

Edward Berry / Laura Ewart / Katherine Bell

 

brooksmacdonald@fticonsulting.com

07703 330199 / 07711 387085 / 07976 870961

 

Notes to editors

Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides leading investment 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 £15.5 billion as at 30 September 2022.

Brooks Macdonald offers a range of investment management services to private high net worth individuals, pension funds, institutions, charities and trusts. The Group also provides financial planning as well as international investment management, and 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, Cheltenham, East Anglia, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Scotland, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man.

 

LEI: 213800WRDF8LB8MIEX37

www.brooksmacdonald.com / @BrooksMacdonald

 

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