Business
Final Results
St. James's Place PLC reported a strong year for 2025, with a post-tax Underlying cash result of £462.3 million, a 3% increase from 2024, and IFRS profit after tax rising 33% to £531.4 million. The company successfully implemented its new charging structure, progressed its ongoing service evidence review, and advanced its cost and efficiency program, with total shareholder distributions intended to increase to 70% of the Underlying cash result. Funds under management reached a record £220.0 billion, supported by gross inflows of £21.9 billion. The Board plans to pay an interim dividend and conduct share buy-backs following the half-year 2026 results. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \nPRESS RELEASE\n \n25 February 2026\n\nA YEAR OF STRONG DELIVERY AND EXECUTION\n \nSt. James's Place plc (SJP) today issues its results for the year ended 31 December 2025:\n \nMark FitzPatrick, Chief Executive Officer, commented:\n \n\"I am pleased to report a year of significant progress for St. James's Place. We delivered growth in new business, growth in funds under management, and growth in the Underlying cash result, while at the same time delivering strong returns for our growing number of clients. We have also executed against our key priorities as we position for the future. This included successfully implementing our new simple, comparable charging structure, progressing our historic ongoing service evidence review, and advancing our cost and efficiency programme.\n \nOur achievements in 2025 underscore the enduring need and demand for trusted financial advice. They also demonstrate the strength of our unique Partnership model, which offers clients the best of both worlds: personal advice delivered through long‑term, local relationships, backed by the scale, expertise and brand of the UK's leading financial advice business. We're building on this foundation by investing further in our capabilities, including enhancing the technology and tools available to our advisers. The goal is simple: to free our advisers to focus on what they do best - building trusted relationships and delivering truly invaluable advice.\n \nThe combination of another strong financial outcome together with good operational and strategic progress, has enabled the Board to update our shareholder returns guidance a year earlier than originally planned. Going forward, we intend to increase total annual shareholder distributions to 70% of the Underlying cash result through a combination of dividends and share buy-backs.\n \nWe look to the future with confidence. While the external consumer outlook remains uncertain, the changes we have already made to our business, combined with...