RATHBONES INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-13 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1B
+12.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£405M
-2.6% vs 2023
Employees
2,054
+14% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£21M
-66.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £385,751,000 | £424,964,000 | |
| Operating profit | £63,864,000 | £21,167,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £63,864,000 | £21,167,000 | |
| Net profit | £49,958,000 | £16,367,000 | |
| Cash | £1,038,280,000 | £1,165,956,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £415,845,000 | £405,212,000 | |
| Equity | £415,845,000 | £405,212,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,802 | 2,054 | |
| Wages | £154,294,000 | £173,385,000 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 16.6% | 5.0% | |
| Net margin | 13.0% | 3.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 85.4% | 86.6% | |
| Interest cover | 0.87x | 0.26x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As the directors confirm they have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- RATHBONES INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED · parent
- Rathbones Investment Management International Limited 100%
- Citywall Nominees Limited 100%
- Neilson Cobbold Client Nominees Limited 100%
- Rathbone Nominees Limited 100%
- R M Walkden & Co Limited 100%
- Speirs & Jeffrey Limited 100%
- Speirs & Jeffrey Client Nominees Limited 100%
- Speirs + Jeffrey Fund Management Limited 100%
- Speirs & Jeffrey Portfolio Management Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 21 September 2023, following regulatory approval the Company's parent, Rathbones Group Plc, completed its planned combination with Investec Wealth and Investment UK (IW&I).”
- “Additionally, as part of the process of integrating IW&I with the existing Rathbones Group, the Group has successfully completed the consolidation of its property footprint that operates through an extensive UK office network.”
- “Expenditure for the year was driven higher by costs incurred in relation to preparations for the planned integration of a fellow group undertaking, IW&I, onto the Company's platform, which is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2025.”
- “During 2024, Rathbone Group Plc undertook a restricture within its group in relation to Saunderson House Limited ("SHL"), a fellow group undertaking acquired by Rathbones Group Plc on 20 October 2021. This migration process was completed in H1 2024.”
- “On 31 July 2024, SHL transferred its trade and assets to the Company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 72 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, Ali | Secretary | 2016-05-01 | — | — |
| BANNISTER, Clive Christopher Roger | Director | 2021-04-06 | Oct 1958 | British |
| CUMMINGS, Iain Alexander | Director | 2021-10-05 | Oct 1961 | British |
| DUHON, Terri Lynn | Director | 2018-07-02 | May 1972 | American |
| GENTLEMEN, Sarah Felicity | Director | 2015-01-21 | Feb 1970 | British |
| HOOLEY, Iain William | Director | 2024-01-22 | Aug 1972 | British |
| MISTRY, Dharmash Pravin | Director | 2021-10-05 | Aug 1970 | British |
| SORRELL, Jonathan Edward Hugh | Director | 2025-08-18 | Aug 1977 | British |
Show 72 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRBY, Stephen David | Secretary | 1994-01-20 | 2001-01-26 |
| LOADER, Richard Edwin | Secretary | 2001-01-26 | 2016-04-30 |
| TUCK, John Edward | Secretary | — | 1994-01-20 |
| ADLINGTON, Hugh Michael Barton | Director | 2006-03-14 | 2009-06-30 |
| AVERY, Catherine Rosemary Reid | Director | 2012-02-08 | 2013-05-14 |
| BARCLAY, James Christopher | Director | 2003-11-26 | 2005-11-14 |
| BARON, Rupert Nigel Kendall | Director | 2006-03-14 | 2009-06-30 |
| BLIGH, Ivo Donald Stuart, Lord Clifton | Director | 2006-03-14 | 2012-02-08 |
| BOLTON CARTER, Timothy John | Director | 2001-11-28 | 2012-02-08 |
| BUCKLEY, Ian Michael | Director | 2002-03-27 | 2012-12-31 |
| BURTON, Caroline Mary | Director | 2012-02-08 | 2013-05-14 |
| BURTON, Caroline Mary | Director | 2003-11-26 | 2005-11-14 |
| CAYZER COLVIN, James Michael Beale | Director | 2002-07-24 | 2005-11-14 |
| CHAVASSE, Paul Dominic Grant | Director | 2001-09-26 | 2016-11-02 |
| CHILLINGWORTH, Julian Richard | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2012-02-08 |
| CLARK, Colin Martin | Director | 2018-10-24 | 2022-07-28 |
| CLARKE, David Robin | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2002-05-29 |
| COODE-ADAMS, John Giles Selby | Director | 2000-02-28 | 2005-11-14 |
| CORBETT, Oliver Roebling Panton | Director | 2012-02-08 | 2014-06-03 |
| CRAYTON, Strimati | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2001-03-02 |
| CRICKMORE, Andrew John | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2002-08-20 |
| CUNNINGHAM, Harold Michael Clunie | Director | 1996-09-25 | 2006-09-13 |
| DEAN, James William | Director | 2013-11-01 | 2022-05-05 |
| DESBOROUGH, Susan Mary | Director | 2004-07-28 | 2007-11-28 |
| DODD, Lorraine Antonia Carrol | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2009-06-30 |
| DUSSARTRE, Jane Mary | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2002-04-23 |
| EGERTON VERNON, Paul | Director | 2003-05-21 | 2005-12-31 |
| ELIOT-COHEN, Timothy Edward | Director | 2006-03-14 | 2009-06-30 |
| ENTWISTLE, John Nicholas Mcalpine | Director | 1996-02-01 | 1998-05-06 |
| FOX, James Robert | Director | 2007-01-01 | 2009-06-30 |
| GORE LANGTON, Clare | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2009-06-30 |
| HARREL, David Terrence Digby | Director | 2012-02-08 | 2017-05-11 |
| HARVEY, Ian Pearce | Director | — | 1999-09-03 |
| HENDERSON, John George | Director | 2000-11-29 | 2009-06-30 |
| HEXTON, Clive Richard Charles | Director | 2002-05-29 | 2009-06-30 |
| HOWELL, Philip Luard | Director | 2013-12-01 | 2019-05-09 |
| HUGHES PENNEY, Robert Charles | Director | 2006-03-14 | 2009-06-30 |
| INGALL, Michael Lenox | Director | — | 2003-05-07 |
| JONES, Graham Michael Thelwall, Doctor | Director | 1993-06-23 | 1997-08-20 |
| KEATLEY, William Halliday | Director | 1998-03-25 | 2002-06-30 |
| KENNY, Bernard | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2012-07-27 |
| KINLOCH, Colin William | Director | 1996-02-01 | 1998-05-06 |
| KIRBY, Stephen David | Director | 1996-02-01 | 2001-01-26 |
| LANYON, Richard Patrick | Director | 1995-02-20 | 2012-05-10 |
| LEATHER, Mark William Fishwick | Director | 1992-12-31 | 2003-12-31 |
| LEATHER, Michael Alan Fishwick | Director | 1993-06-23 | 2004-06-01 |
| LEIGH, John Roland | Director | — | 1993-09-30 |
| LIFFORD, Edward James Wingfield, The Viscount | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2006-12-31 |
| LOADER, Richard Edwin | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2009-06-30 |
| MACAULAY, David Stuart | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2012-02-08 |
| MATHIAS, Jennifer Elizabeth | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2024-01-21 |
| MATTHEWS, Kathryn Ann | Director | 2012-02-08 | 2018-09-12 |
| MOORLEY, John Ian | Director | 2000-11-29 | 2009-06-30 |
| MORRIS, Andrew Timothy | Director | 1997-09-24 | 2012-12-31 |
| MORRIS, Roy Alfred | Director | — | 2005-11-14 |
| NICHOLLS, Mark Patrick | Director | 2011-05-26 | 2021-03-05 |
| NOTTINGHAM, John Richard Anthony | Director | — | 1993-06-01 |
| PEARSON, Mark Hadden | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2000-10-31 |
| PEARSON LUND, Peter Graham | Director | 2005-01-26 | 2010-03-31 |
| PETTIGREW, James Neilson | Director | 2017-03-06 | 2021-05-06 |
| POMFRET, Andrew David | Director | 1999-08-01 | 2014-02-28 |
| POWELL, Geoffrey Mark | Director | 1996-02-01 | 2011-05-11 |
| RATHBONE, Sebastian David | Director | — | 1994-12-29 |
| RATHBONE, William | Director | 1996-02-01 | 2003-12-31 |
| RUFFER, Jonathan Garnier | Director | — | 1994-04-26 |
| SMEETON, Richard Ian | Director | 1999-12-01 | 2012-12-31 |
| STANLEY, Oliver Duncan | Director | — | 2000-05-10 |
| STOCKTON, Robert Paul | Director | 2008-09-24 | 2025-08-18 |
| TOD, Thomas Ian Fleming | Director | 1991-09-25 | 1994-12-29 |
| TUCK, John Edward | Director | 1996-04-24 | 2000-11-16 |
| VERNON, Jeffrey Barry | Director | 2000-11-29 | 2012-12-07 |
| WEBB, Michael Mark | Director | 2010-05-26 | 2012-02-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rathbones Group Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 322 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-30 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-07-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-07-30 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-07-30 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-08 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-07 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 3
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+10.2%
£385,751,000 £424,964,000
-
Cash
+12.3%
£1,038,280,000 £1,165,956,000
-
Net assets
-2.6%
£415,845,000 £405,212,000
-
Employees
+14%
1,802 2,054
-
Operating profit
-66.9%
£63,864,000 £21,167,000
-
Profit before tax
-66.9%
£63,864,000 £21,167,000
-
Wages
+12.4%
£154,294,000 £173,385,000
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