LEADENHALL SECURITIES CORPORATION LIMITED

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ernst & Young LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Taking all the above factors into consideration, including the nature of the Company and its business, the Directors are satisfied that, at the time of approving the financial statements, there is a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for 12 months from the date the Annual Report and Accounts are signed. For this reason, the Directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. LEADENHALL SECURITIES CORPORATION LIMITED · parent
   1. Schroder Equity Opportunities Fund 100% · Australia · Investment Fund

Significant events

• “Subsequent to the year end, the Board of Schroders plc, the ultimate parent undertaking of the Company, reached a preliminary agreement with Pantheon LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nuveen, LLC, on the financial terms of an offer to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Schroders plc, to be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  -94.9%

  £4,757,000 → £242,000

• Net assets

  -21.8%

  £239,634,000 → £187,277,000

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

• Operating profit

  -87.1%

  £34,322,000 → £4,431,000

• Profit before tax

  -53.2%

  £24,637,000 → £11,534,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers