We will share with you the responsibility for meeting your long-term investment goals by constructing, managing and administering your investment portfolio.
Investment Management Service
At a time when greater emphasis is placed on long-term self provision, it has never been more important to obtain specialist investment management.
Our Investment Management Service is delivered by experienced and qualified investment managers, who will construct, manage and administer an investment portfolio with the aim of achieving for you a consistent performance over the long term based on your attitude to risk and investment aims. We foster a close, trusted relationship with you so that your long-term objectives are fully understood, enabling us to provide a suitable investment strategy. In recognition that a growing number of clients are keen to invest in businesses that have a positive influence on society and the environment, with high standards of corporate governance, it is possible to elect for an “ESG” version of each of our core strategies. Learn more about our core investment strategies and please see the Performance of our core investment strategies.
We will provide our Investment Management Service to you if you have a minimum of £50,000 to invest. The portfolio under our management must be held in our Custody Service.
To assist you in determining what returns you may have achieved based on an investment amount, if invested at a certain point in time, we have developed a Hypothetical Returns Calculator, which is based on the latest performance of our core investment strategies.
Our Investment Management Service is undertaken on a discretionary basis. Once we have completed a detailed analysis of your personal circumstances, investment aims, time horizon, capacity for loss and attitude to risk, we will manage your portfolio of investments and undertake all investment decisions and determine when would be the most appropriate time at which to invest or make changes to your portfolio.
Cash Balances:
The rate of interest paid on Cash held in a portfolio under our management is detailed in the Investment Management Service Charge Card below. An element of the interest that we may receive on your cash balance will be retained by us.
The prevailing cash balance is not included in the total portfolio value, used to determine our fees as detailed in the Charge Card.
Which investment accounts can it be applied to:
In addition to providing a general investment account, James Brearley is an approved HM Revenue & Customs ISA Manager (Learn more about the James Brearley ISA). It is possible for us to manage investments you may have within an offshore bond or pensions (Learn more about the James Brearley Managed SIPP). We also specialise in the management of Court of Protection funds and general trust portfolios.
Transfer of existing investments into the service:
If you have existing investments which you wish to transfer into the service, possibly in a certificated form or those held by another custodian or ISA Manager, we can arrange this for you. Please contact us and we will provide you with the relevant forms to support this.
The time it takes to complete the process, once we are in receipt of the relevant forms and documents, varies by the circumstances in question. However, having established your holdings, be it by the receipt of supporting certificates and statements or following the formal confirmation of those positions held with another custodian, we would expect the process to typically take around 6 weeks to complete. As a word of warning though, we have experienced longer time lengths than this when dealing with overseas stocks especially when they are certificated.
Whilst investments are in the process of being transferred to us, it is not possible to place trade instructions on them.
Whilst we do not charge for the work associated with transferring them into our service, an existing custodian or ISA Manager, may apply a transfer-out charge. We would expect this to be detailed in their service charge card.
Keeping you up to date with the progress of your portfolio:
We will provide you with a detailed quarterly report on the progress of your portfolio covering the activity over the period and a performance summary which also includes the movement in the appropriate industry-standard index, agreed with you at the commencement of the arrangement.
This provides you with the ability to measure the relative performance of your portfolio.
Our online valuation service allows you to access a current valuation of your portfolio, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This facility also allows you to view a historical valuation of your portfolio as at the close of play on any business day.
Each June, we will provide you with a Consolidated Tax Certificate and supporting income schedules, along with a Capital Gains Report where appropriate.
Portfolio Management Services:
As part of our Investment Management Service, we also offer an AIM Portfolio strategy and a Structured Products Portfolio Management strategy. Click here to learn more about these.
Investing in stock market based investments may not be right for all investors. You should consider carefully or seek professional guidance before investing. The value of an investment and any income from it can fall as well as rise and you may not get back the amount you originally invested.
Defaqto Rated
Our Investment Management Service has achieved a Defaqto 5 Star rating
