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Private Clients.

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Managing wealth presents many common challenges. However, at the core of our private client service is an appreciation that many higher net worth clients often have a different set of motivations and ambitions. These can be far-reaching and complex, but always unique to each individual.

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About Private Clients.

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We understand that any advice needs to be as individual as you are, designed to fit around your lifestyle, family life, and your business and professional interests. In that way, we can help you shape your future plans, and hope to build a lasting relationship with you.

As a private client, your key relationship remains with us, but you also have exclusive access to a specialist St. James's Place advice and servicing team, which brings together highly experienced financial planners, investment and pension planning specialists, specialist banking advisers, and access to experts in tax planning and legal matters. They work with us to provide an exceptional, high-quality service, where your priorities become our priorities.

We want to help you build and maintain strong financial foundations: for your future and for your loved ones.

…so they can graduate debt-free or maybe get on the property ladder sooner, you can save up to £9,000 a year into a Junior ISA to make your money work harder for them.

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Working in Partnership

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We want to build trusted relationships that stand the test of time. Before you become a private client, we can introduce you to our team of specialists to create and maintain your wealth management strategy.

With the ongoing support of experts within the private client team. we will work closely with you to ensure that the strategy covering these areas is reviewed regularly, and adapted where appropriate.

Growing and preserving capital is likely to be central to supporting the lifestyle you enjoy; the comprehensive and diverse range of investment funds available, and managed using the St. James's Place investment management approach, provides the wide choice of solutions with the aim of generating the capital growth or income you need to maintain your financial freedom.

St. James's Place also have a choice of Growth and Income Portfolios with a range of investment objectives. Alternatively, for those seeking additional diversification or a more active role in their investment strategy, Rowan Dartington, the Discretionary Fund management and Stockbroking arm of St. James's Place, offers a complementary, bespoke portfolio service.

We also offer access to a range of specialist alternative investments for clients who have particular estate and tax-planning requirements.

The value of an investment with St. James's Place or Rowan Dartington may fall as well as rise. You may get back less than you invested.

Protecting your estate for the benefit of those closest to you requires complex decisions and solutions, especially for individuals with substantial wealth and interests. Whether during your lifetime or upon your passing, to family members or charitable causes, we can help you establish the right planning to protect and pass on assets and wealth in the most tax-efficient manner.

Furthermore, in conjunction with WPA, St. James's Place have developed a generation-spanning Family Healthcare Plan which enables you to insure your entire family. We also offer specialist life insurance broking to meet the specific, often unique, needs of our private clients. Our dedicated insurance risk audit aims to ensure that all tangible assets, liabilities, and personal well-being, are sufficiently covered, whether for individuals, trustees or business owners.

The levels and bases of taxation, and reliefs from taxation, can change at any time and will depend on individual circumstances.

Please note, this involves the referral to a service that is separate and distinct to those offered by St. James's Place.

Trusts and foundations and companies play an increasingly important role in wealth management for individuals, family offices and businesses. As part of your strategy, we can help you with succession planning, tax mitigation and asset protection, as well as facilitate a range of specialist investment structures.

We offer exclusive access to highly-experienced and professional legal and fiduciary services from Genus Trust Company, who are based in Jersey – a jurisdiction with a long-established reputation for client confidentiality and one of the world’s most politically-stable and respected financial centres.

The value of an investment with St. James's Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds selected and may fall as well as rise. You may get back less than the amount invested.

The levels and bases of taxation and reliefs from taxation can change at any time. The value of any tax reliefs depends on individual circumstances.

Trusts are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Please note that the services provided by Genus Trust Company are separate and distinct to those offered by St. James's Place.

Whether you are considering establishing a charitable trust during your lifetime, or making provisions for a legacy after your death, the St. James's Place Philanthropy Service can help ensure your charitable giving is both effective and rewarding.

In conjunction with the Charities Aid Foundation, we can also offer referrals to expertise covering:

  • trust arrangements and long-term gifting strategies
  • legacy arrangements for Wills
  • offshore facilities for UK resident non UK domiciled clients and an American Donor Fund if you pay tax in the US and the UK.

We can also provide investment facilities for charitable organisations and social enterprises.

The value of an investment with St. James's Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested.

 

Trusts are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

 

We can open the door to an exclusive range of solutions specifically designed for clients with more sophisticated banking, lending and deposit requirements. We will work with the St. James's Place Private Banking team to understand your current and future needs as well as your servicing preferences in order to create a solution that suits your individual circumstances. Through relationships with carefully-selected Banks, we can offer access to:

  • private banking, instant access and term deposit facilities
  • an online cash management solution* for both personal and corporate cash balances (for deposits in excess of £50,000)
  • bespoke credit facilities, trustee and offshore accounts and foreign exchange specialists.

Specialist lending solutions may also allow you to secure borrowing against your eligible St. James's Place investments, providing a short-term loan facility and avoiding the need to encash long-term investments when looking to cover immediate liquidity requirements.

Please note that where your eligible investments are used for this purpose, you will be unable to access your investments against which the lending is secured. If the loan is not repaid in time, the investments may be encashed.

Please note that the services provided by any Banks selected, will be separate and distinct to those offered by St. James's Place.

*through SJP's cash management service powered by Flagstone.

Please note the above services involve the referral to a srvice that is separate and distinct to those offered by St. James's Place.

Building a business can be immensely rewarding, but it can be hard to step away from the day-to-day issues. Our specialist advice can help you through every stage of the business life-cycle – start-up, growth, expansion and exit – but most importantly, provide the peace of mind to allow you to focus on the successful running of your business.

We can help you:

  • build a tax-efficient remuneration strategy that closely matches your objectives
  • undertake an in-depth review of your business and help implement a tailored insurance programme to protect your business from a wide range of risks
  • manage short-term cash flow and deposit requirements and identify appropriate financing solutions
  • prepare you and your business for exit – including achieving financial independence — or reduce the hours you spend running your business.

Business exit strategies planning may include the referral to services that are separate and distinct to those offered by St. James's Place.

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Face to Face Relationships

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We believe that, as a private client, you should also have access to the individuals managing your money and the people making the decisions about those managers, as well as experts who can keep you closely informed on all aspects of wealth management.

Through our private client events you have the opportunity to meet and question our experts, including fund managers, the St. James's Place Chief Investment Officer and other members of the Investment Committee. We also hold bespoke events on topical matters such as philanthropy and charitable giving, planning for the next generation and Inheritance Tax planning.

These exclusive events provide real insight into matters that directly affect you and your wealth, and open our extensive network of expert connections to our most valued clients.

Whatever your plans for yourself, your family or your business, we aim to make a real difference to your life and those you care about most.

…or are investing in other assets, smart tax planning can help you reduce your Capital Gains Tax liabilities when you want to sell.
Just like sporting success, financial success and wellbeing often depends on a small team of professional experts. We will work alongside your existing agent, accountant, solicitor or tax adviser so that your financial advice is part of a complete and holistic approach to your financial wellbeing.

As a member of the St. James's Place Partnership, we have access to some of the most highly-regarded professionals working in financial services today. When required, we can call upon this resource to provide you with the best possible advice.

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St. James' Place Guarantee

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St. James's Place guarantees the suitability of the advice given by members of the St. James's Place Partnership when recommending any of the wealth management products and services available from companies in the group, more details of which are set out on the Group's website.

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