APEX FUND ADMINISTRATION SERVICES (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-01 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£473K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£1M
Equity attributable
Employees
36
Average over period
Profit before tax
£196K
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- APEX FUND ADMINISTRATION SERVICES (UK) LIMITED 2023-06-26 → present
- MAITLAND ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED 2016-04-01 → 2023-06-26
- PHOENIX ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED 1997-11-17 → 2016-04-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,746,169 | £10,124,332 | |
| Operating profit | £508,917 | £255,409 | |
| Profit before tax | £460,183 | £196,441 | |
| Net profit | £335,683 | £167,620 | |
| Cash | £871,959 | £472,857 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,326,147 | £2,251,580 | |
| Net assets | £1,301,368 | £1,468,988 | |
| Equity | £1,301,368 | £1,468,988 | |
| Average employees | 82 | 36 | |
| Wages | £4,160,728 | £3,674,860 |
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 | 7.5% | 2.5% | |
| Net margin | 5.0% | 1.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.9% | 11.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 69.5% | 77.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.50x | 1.27x | |
| Interest cover | 10.44x | 4.33x |
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 Ireland LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared cash flow forecasts for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements which indicate that, taking account of reasonably possible downsides, the Company will have sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due for that period.”
Group structure
- APEX FUND ADMINISTRATION SERVICES (UK) LIMITED · parent
- Abacus Financial Software Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 1 March 2025 the Company sold its Transfer Agency Services revenue lines to fellow subsidiary Apex Group Fiduciary Services (UK) Limited for £20 million.”
- “Since the year end, there have been three errors and omissions which require compensation payments from the Company to a fellow subsidiary, Apex Fundrock Limited, the Company's biggest client.”
- “In November 2024, the Company made a fund administration processing error in the provision of its fund administration service as the delegated fund administrator of the fellow subsidiary (Apex Fundrock Limited).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 31 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURBIDGE, Mike, Mr. | Director | 2025-03-31 | Feb 1977 | British |
| FOLEY-BRICKLEY, Patric John | Director | 2025-03-31 | Feb 1959 | British |
Show 31 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYER, George William | Secretary | 2015-10-01 | 2019-12-27 |
| BOARD, Nicola | Secretary | 2023-09-15 | 2024-12-05 |
| FRY, Sarah Margaret Mary | Secretary | 2020-02-19 | 2023-09-15 |
| HAYES, Duncan Maclean | Secretary | 2005-01-14 | 2015-09-30 |
| KING, Sharon Ann | Secretary | 1997-11-17 | 2000-06-23 |
| KING, Steven Andrew | Secretary | 2000-06-23 | 2011-10-25 |
| TEMPLES (NOMINEES) LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1997-11-17 | 1997-11-17 |
| ACKERMANN, Reinhold | Director | 2017-11-23 | 2020-01-31 |
| AGNEW, Theodore Thomas More, Lord | Director | 2011-10-25 | 2013-01-25 |
| CAMPBELL-BIRKETT, Christopher Michael Fraser | Director | 2000-06-23 | 2002-07-24 |
| CLARK, James Forbes | Director | 2017-11-23 | 2019-05-02 |
| DE GRAAF, Neal Brent | Director | 2019-07-05 | 2020-09-25 |
| DEPTFORD, Alexander Charles | Director | 2014-01-23 | 2015-06-05 |
| FOLEY-BRICKLEY, Patric | Director | 2014-01-08 | 2015-06-05 |
| FREDERICO, Guido | Director | 2021-05-31 | 2025-03-31 |
| GEORGALA, Steven | Director | 2015-06-05 | 2022-12-19 |
| HUGILL, Jon | Director | 2020-09-25 | 2026-01-29 |
| JONES, Danielle | Director | 2014-09-16 | 2015-06-05 |
| KING, Sharon Ann | Director | 1997-11-17 | 2000-06-23 |
| KING, Steven Andrew | Director | 1997-11-17 | 2012-03-31 |
| KUBILUS, David | Director | 2015-06-05 | 2017-11-23 |
| LEEDHAM, Robert Walter | Director | 2013-01-22 | 2021-05-31 |
| LITTLE, Peter Christopher | Director | 2011-10-25 | 2014-08-26 |
| MUNTING, David William | Director | 2013-01-22 | 2015-06-05 |
| QUIRKE, Maurice Gerard | Director | 2008-08-01 | 2015-06-05 |
| RICE, John Michael | Director | 2011-02-17 | 2013-04-30 |
| RICHARDSON, Alan John | Director | 2000-08-22 | 2009-06-18 |
| SCHUHEN, Veit | Director | 2015-06-05 | 2017-11-23 |
| TIBBLE, David Charles | Director | 2009-01-09 | 2016-02-09 |
| YATES, Christopher John | Director | 2005-03-31 | 2013-07-23 |
| TEMPLES (PROFESSIONAL SERVICES) LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1997-11-17 | 1997-11-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apex Consolidation Entity Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 210 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-06-26 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2023-06-26 NM06 Change of name request comments
- 2023-06-26 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-31 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-12-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-12-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-11-17 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-27 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2023-09-15 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-15 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-06-26 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2023-06-26 | NM06 | change-of-name | Change of name request comments | |
| 2023-06-26 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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