Underlying revenue earlier than tax rose 18% year-on-year to £17.1m (H1 FY23: £14.5m) for wealth supervisor and Monetary Planner Brooks Macdonald for the six months ended 31 December.
Income elevated by 8% to £63.3m, primarily pushed by greater Monetary Planning income following acquisitions made within the 2023 monetary yr.
Nonetheless, the wealth supervisor and Monetary Planner reported web outflows of £0.2bn for the interval.
The agency stated it expects to proceed to see excessive ranges of outflows given prevailing macro-economic circumstances, with web outflows anticipated for the total yr.
This was offset by an funding efficiency rise of 5.3%.
Whole funds underneath administration grew 4.3% over the half to a document £17.6bn (30 June 2023: £16.8bn).
Out of £5.3bn underneath administration or recommendation on behalf of personal shoppers, £4.4bn associated to portfolios inside the agency’s funding administration and £0.8bn was for portfolios with third celebration funding managers.
Underlying prices elevated by 4.7% because of the impression of the acquisitions made in 2023 and price inflation. The agency expects the fee advantages from the organisational adjustments it carried out in December to be realised within the second half of this yr.
Final Autumn Brooks introduced that it might cut back its headcount to chop prices yearly by £4m. The agency axed round 55 jobs, about 10% of its workforce, as a part of the cost-saving measures.
The wealth supervisor added that it had accomplished the primary section of the implementation of its new shopper relationship administration system. The primary section has been centered on monetary adviser-facing processes and methods.
In its Monetary Planning division, Brooks has additionally accomplished the implementation of its recommendation software program which it claims will present constantly robust shopper service.
Andrew Shepherd, CEO of Brooks Macdonald, stated: “Over the last six months our precedence has been to assist our shoppers and advisers navigate the difficult markets that the wealth administration trade has continued to face. The necessity for trusted recommendation and strong long-term funding administration stays as robust as ever.
“As a administration workforce, we now have been proactive in adapting our enterprise to the present setting, leading to a bunch that’s in a stronger operational place, well-placed to make the most of the chance forward.”
For the rest of this yr, Brooks stated it expects its strongest progress to return from its Platform MPS and BMIS companies. For the primary half of its monetary yr, roughly half of the inflows seen for the agency had been inside its MPS Platform service.
