Overview
Schroders : SDR is a British multinational asset management company, founded in 1804. The company operates in 30 different countries around Europe, America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Headquartered in the City of London, it is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Schroders has two share classes: voting shares (SDR.L) and non-voting shares (SDRC.L).
Schroders bears the name of the Schröder family, a prominent Hanseatic family of Hamburg with branches in other countries. The Schroder family, through trustee companies, individual ownership and charities, control 47.93 per cent of the Company’s ordinary shares.
As a global investment manager, Schroder help institutions, intermediaries and individuals meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. But as the world changes, so do Schroder’s clients’ needs. That’s why they have a long history of adapting to suit the times and keeping a focus on what matters most to their clients.
Doing this takes experience and expertise. Schroder brings together people and data to spot the trends that will shape the future. This provides a unique perspective which allows them to always invest with conviction. They are responsible for £449.4 billion (€508.2 billion/$593.3 billion)* of assets for clients who trust them to deliver sustainable returns. Schroders remains determined to build future prosperity for them, and for all of society. Today, the company has 4,900 people across six continents who focus on doing just this.
Schroder are a global business that’s managed locally. This allows them to always keep clients’ needs at the heart of everything they do. For over 200 years and more than seven generations they’ve grown and developed their expertise in tandem with clients’ needs and interests.
*as at 30 June 2018
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11 Dec 2018 5 min read
Schroder AsiaPacific navigates a volatile year
Schroder AsiaPacific Fund has announced its final results for the year ended 30 September 2018. Its chairman, Nicholas Smith, says that, during the year, “the Company retained the gains made in the two prior exceptional years, despite difficult market conditions generally”. The NAV produced a positive total return of 4.2%, very slightly trailing the benchmark, […]
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27 May 2016 4 min read
Shires Income’s emerging markets and commodity holdings drive underperformance
Shires Income, managed by Ed Beal (pictured), has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016. During the year, the trust’s NAV fell by 7.0% on a total return basis, thereby underperforming its FTSE All-Share Index benchmark, which lost 3.9%. The company says that its NAV underperformance was due principally to stock […]
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01 Jun 2015 2 min read
Shires Income beats UK index
Shires Income’s results statement for the year ended 31 March 2015 says the company generated a return on net assets of 9.7% for the year, ahead of a 6.6% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The company’s shares did not keep pace with the net asset value however and the return to shareholders was 4.9%. […]
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12 May 2015 1 min read
Finsbury Growth & Income powers ahead
Finsbury Growth & Income’s interim results for the six month period that ended on 31 March 2015 demonstrate why it is so popular with investors. The total returns on both net asset value and share price were 17.4% and 17.3% respectively while the return on the FTSE All-Share Index was just 5.3%. The first interim […]
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24 Apr 2015 2 min read
JPMorgan Elect says every pool delivered in H1
JPMorgan Elect interims for the six months ended 28 February 2015 are out. The Managed Growth pool beat its bench mark by 3.2% over the period. The pool generated a return on net assets of 9.7% while their 50:50 FTSE All-Share : FTSE All-World ex UK benchmark returned 6.5%. They declared two quarterly dividends totalling 3.9p […]
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09 Dec 2014 1 min read
Another year of outperformance for Finsbury Growth & Income
Finsbury Growth & Income Trust, managed by Nick Train (pictured), has published its annual results for the year ended 30 September 3014, which confirm another year of outperformance relative to its FTSE All-Share Benchmark. FGT provided an NAV total return of 8.6%, comfortably ahead of the benchmark’s 6.1%. A second interim dividend of 6.2p has been […]