FEDERATED HERMES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£153M
-2.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£185M
+8.1% vs 2024
Employees
605
+0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£16M
+59.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- FEDERATED HERMES LIMITED 2022-04-01 → present
- HERMES FUND MANAGERS LIMITED 2008-03-17 → 2022-04-01
- HERMES PENSIONS MANAGEMENT LIMITED 1995-03-31 → 2008-03-17
- POSTEL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED 1982-09-03 → 1995-03-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £200,925,000 | £204,848,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£47,922,000 | -£21,970,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£38,558,000 | -£15,559,000 | |
| Net profit | -£38,873,000 | -£15,932,000 | |
| Cash | £156,736,000 | £152,991,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £184,369,000 | £199,438,000 | |
| Net assets | £171,158,000 | £185,015,000 | |
| Equity | £171,158,000 | £185,015,000 | |
| Average employees | 600 | 605 | |
| Wages | £109,888,000 | £110,715,000 |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -23.9% | -10.7% | |
| Net margin | -19.3% | -7.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -26.0% | -11.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.76x | 2.71x |
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
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having made all reasonable enquiries and having regard to the nature of the Group and its activities, FHL's Directors are satisfied at the time of approving the financial statements that there is a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the date of approving this annual report. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- FEDERATED HERMES LIMITED · parent
- Hermes Investment Management Limited
- Rivington Energy (Management) Ltd
- Conesby Solar Farm Limited
- Partridge Hill Solar Limited
- Hartlepool West Solar Farm Ltd
Significant events
- “The acquisition of REML on 7 April 2025 contributed £2.5m of additional revenue and £4.9m of administrative expenses.”
- “On 29 September 2025, REML acquired 100% of shares in three project companies, Conesby, Partridge Hill and Hartlepool, together comprising c. 142 MWp of solar capacity and 158 MWh of battery energy storage.”
- “During 2025, an 8.0% profit share entitlement in HGPE Infrastructure Consulting LLP was cancelled following a member leaving. The cancelled entitlement was reallocated to the managing member's residual profit share, resulting in FHL's economic interest increasing by 8.0% to 57.5%.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 75 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUNNINGHAM, Deborah Ann | Director | 2018-07-02 | Sep 1959 | American |
| DONAHUE, Thomas Robert | Director | 2018-07-02 | Oct 1958 | American |
| LAMBESIS, Jane | Director | 2018-07-02 | Jan 1961 | American |
| NUSSEIBEH, Saker Anwar | Director | 2009-06-03 | Jun 1961 | British |
Show 75 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANE, Susan Jane | Secretary | 2015-08-07 | 2019-05-10 |
| GILBERT, Michael Heathcote | Secretary | — | 1992-04-30 |
| GREEN, Michelle Simone | Secretary | 2001-11-23 | 2015-08-07 |
| LE GRICE, Frederick William | Secretary | 1992-05-01 | 2001-11-22 |
| THOMPSON, Katherine | Secretary | 2020-03-25 | 2022-05-31 |
| ANSON, Mark Jonathon | Director | 2006-01-31 | 2007-07-26 |
| BAIRSTOW, Peter David | Director | — | 1995-03-31 |
| BARFORD, David Richard | Director | 2006-01-01 | 2012-04-02 |
| BARING, Nicholas Hugo | Director | — | 1995-03-31 |
| BERNAYS, Richard Oliver | Director | 2005-01-01 | 2008-07-25 |
| BEZDEL, Bohdan Roman | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2002-05-31 |
| BILES, John Anthony | Director | 2005-09-01 | 2011-07-31 |
| BISPING, Paul | Director | 1997-03-05 | 2004-12-31 |
| BROWN, Stephen Paul | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2004-01-13 |
| BUNNAGE, Ralph Mason | Director | — | 1992-03-31 |
| BUTLER, Peter Robert | Director | 1998-01-01 | 2004-11-10 |
| CARTER, Michael Leslie | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2004-12-31 |
| CERESINO, Gordon Joseph | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2022-09-21 |
| CHESSELLS, Arthur David, Sir | Director | 1999-01-01 | 2007-12-31 |
| CLARKE, Rupert James | Director | 2007-07-26 | 2012-01-30 |
| CLARKE, Rupert James | Director | 2004-04-30 | 2004-12-31 |
| CLAYDON, Mary Catherine | Director | 2016-05-05 | 2016-12-31 |
| CONWAY, Allan | Director | 1995-03-31 | 1997-01-17 |
| COOK, Alan Michael | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2004-12-31 |
| COX, Roy Arthur | Director | 1995-03-31 | 1998-03-31 |
| DAVIES, David Wyndham | Director | 1999-05-10 | 2009-07-24 |
| FISHER, John Basil | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2022-09-21 |
| FRASER, James Annand, Mr. | Director | 2020-06-23 | 2021-08-31 |
| GOUDIE, Christopher James | Director | 2010-07-14 | 2011-04-28 |
| GRAY, Roger Michael | Director | 2006-10-20 | 2009-06-19 |
| HARROLD, Richard Anthony | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2004-01-13 |
| HARTRIDGE- PRICE, Colin Charles | Director | 1996-02-01 | 2004-12-31 |
| HASELDEN, Gillian | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2020-06-23 |
| HEWITT, Leslie Victor | Director | — | 1995-03-31 |
| JACOMB, Martin Wakefield, Sir | Director | 1991-10-09 | 1995-03-31 |
| JAMES, Sally Ann | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2022-09-21 |
| JONES, Glyn Parry | Director | 2008-07-25 | 2011-05-31 |
| KENNEDY, Ian Marshall | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2018-07-02 |
| KENT, Roderick David | Director | 2008-01-01 | 2010-04-14 |
| KIRBY, Ingrid Alison | Director | 1997-07-01 | 2004-12-31 |
| LABRAM, Nigel | Director | 2008-01-01 | 2010-01-12 |
| LEACH, Charles Guy Rodney, Lord | Director | — | 1994-03-31 |
| MATTHEWS, Kathryn Ann | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2017-01-31 |
| MCAULEY III, Denis | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2020-12-31 |
| MCCLORY, William | Director | 2010-08-18 | 2020-03-31 |
| METCALFE, Charles Michael | Director | 2002-06-24 | 2006-09-18 |
| MOULD, John Charles | Director | 2009-08-10 | 2014-07-01 |
| MUSTOE, Nicholas Charles William | Director | 2002-02-25 | 2006-05-31 |
| NOVAK, Richard A | Director | 2021-01-01 | 2022-09-21 |
| ORMROD, Alan Douglas | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2001-04-28 |
| ORRISS, Angela | Director | 2000-01-24 | 2004-12-31 |
| PADGETT, Robert Alan | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2003-05-15 |
| PETTIGREW, James Neilson | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2014-10-31 |
| PITT-WATSON, David James | Director | 2004-12-31 | 2006-05-01 |
| PUREWAL, Parwinder Singh | Director | 2020-06-01 | 2022-09-21 |
| QUARTANO, Ralph Nicholas | Director | — | 1991-10-08 |
| QUIRKE, Maurice Gerard | Director | 2004-08-03 | 2007-12-14 |
| REED, Martin John | Director | 1995-05-01 | 1996-01-31 |
| ROSS GOOBEY, Alastair | Director | 1993-01-25 | 2001-12-31 |
| SCOTT GARNER, John | Director | — | 1993-03-31 |
| SELKIRK, Roderick Alistair | Director | 2002-04-29 | 2004-12-31 |
| SELLERS, Philip Edward | Director | 1994-04-01 | 1995-03-31 |
| SELLERS, Philip Edward | Director | — | 1992-03-31 |
| SPENCER, Paul | Director | 2011-06-07 | 2016-03-31 |
| SPOONER, James Douglas, Sir | Director | 1995-03-31 | 1998-12-31 |
| STEEL, Harriet Anne | Director | 2013-10-28 | 2022-12-06 |
| STEWART, David Coldwells | Director | 2015-04-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| THOMAS, Kenneth Rowland | Director | — | 1995-03-31 |
| THREADGOLD, Andrew Richard | Director | — | 1993-01-31 |
| WALSH, James Harry Clive | Director | 2001-05-01 | 2004-12-31 |
| WATSON, Anthony | Director | 1998-11-16 | 2006-01-31 |
| WATSON, David Kenneth | Director | 2011-07-01 | 2020-06-30 |
| WEBB, Michael Mark | Director | 2008-01-01 | 2009-12-10 |
| WHITE, Adrian Harold Michael | Director | 1995-03-31 | 2004-07-23 |
| ZIERDEN III, Theodore William | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2022-09-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federated Holdings (Uk) Ii Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-07-02 | Active |
| Britel Fund Trustees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-08-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 413 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-10-04 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-10-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-05-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-20 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-10-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-08-31 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-06-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-04 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-10-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
+2%
£200,925,000 £204,848,000
-
Cash
-2.4%
£156,736,000 £152,991,000
-
Net assets
+8.1%
£171,158,000 £185,015,000
-
Employees
+0.8%
600 605
-
Operating profit
+54.2%
-£47,922,000 -£21,970,000
-
Profit before tax
+59.6%
-£38,558,000 -£15,559,000
-
Wages
+0.8%
£109,888,000 £110,715,000
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