Schroders

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Schroders plc
Company type Public limited company
LSE:  SDR
LSE:  SDRC
FTSE 100 Component
Industry Investment management
Founded1804;220 years ago (1804)
Founder Johann Heinrich Schröder
Headquarters London, England, UK
Key people
Products
RevenueDecrease2.svg £2,334.4 million (2023) [1]
Decrease2.svg £661.0 million (2023) [1]
Decrease2.svg £402.6 million (2023) [1]
AUM Increase2.svg £750.6 billion (2023) [1]
Number of employees
6,102 (2023) [2]
Subsidiaries Cazenove (stock broker), Asia Pacific Land Limited, Blue Asset Management, Schroder & Co Bank AG, Sandaire Investment Office, Schroders Capital
Website www.schroders.com

Schroders plc is a British multinational asset management company headquartered in London, England. Founded in 1804, it employs over 6,000 people worldwide in 38 locations around Europe, America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

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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. [3]

History

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Arms of the family

Schroders' history began in 1804 when Johann Heinrich Schröder (John Henry) became a partner in J.F. Schröder & Co, the London-based firm of his brother, Johann Friedrich (John Frederick), founded in 1800. [4] In 1818 J. Henry Schröder & Co. was established in London. [5]

During the American Civil War, Schroders "issued £3m bonds in 1863 for the Confederacy." [6]

Key events in the development of the business include the establishment of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation ('Schrobanco') as a commercial bank in New York in 1923. [7]

Further key events included the public offering of the shares in J. Henry Schroder & Co. Ltd on the London Stock Exchange in 1959 [8] and the acquisition of Helbert, Wagg & Co, a leading issuing house, in 1962. [9]

In 1986 the company disposed of Schrobanco, its commercial banking arm in New York and acquired 50% of Wertheim & Co., a mid-tier New York based investment bank, whose activities more closely mirrored those of the London business. [10] Schroders played a leading role in the privatisations carried out by the UK Government in the 1980s and was to grow dramatically under Winfried Bischoff. [11] Schroders was worth £30 million when he took over as CEO in 1984; in 2000 the company sold its investment banking division to Citigroup for £1.3 billion. [12] Citigroup's European investment banking arm traded as Schroder Salomon Smith Barney from 2000 to 2003. [13]

In 2013, Schroders purchased the capital management arm of Cazenove in a deal worth £424 million. [14]

Schroders bought the London-based Sandaire Investment Office in September 2020. [15]

Schroders announced in June 2021 that it was uniting its specialist private assets capabilities under the newly launched Schroders Capital brand. [16]

In 2023, Schroders announced that Chris Durack and Karine Szenberg were appointed co-heads to its client groups in an internal restructuring effort to drive growth across the Asia-Pacific area. [17]

Current operations

In April 2012, Schroders acquired a 25% stake in Axis Mutual Fund. [18] [19]

In December 2021, the firm signed up to the UN's Women Empowerment Principles, an initiative to support women in the workplace which was founded by the United Nations Global Compact and UN Women. [20]

As at 31 December 2021, Schroders was responsible for assets worth £615.2 billion on behalf of clients including corporations, insurance companies, local and public authorities, charities, pension funds, high-net-worth individuals and retail investors. [1]

Collaboration with universities

In June 2014, Schroders' Multi-Asset Investments and Portfolio Solutions (MAPS) announced a collaboration with Professor Anthony G. Constantinides, Director of the newly created Imperial College Financial signal processing Laboratory (FSP). [21] [22]

Notable current and former employees

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References

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  3. "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Schroders. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
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  9. Roberts, page 420
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  11. Roberts, page 498
  12. Citigroup to acquire Schroders bank unit International Herald Tribune, 19 January 2000
  13. Citigroup boss banks on his 'foot soldiers' - The Times – September 17, 2006
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