Increasing North East-based nationwide Monetary Planning agency Fairstone Group has reported a 33% year-on-year enhance in income with price earnings reaching £114m within the final quarter of 2022, up from £86m on the identical interval in 2021.
Fairstone stated there was development in each one in every of its key areas, together with consumer numbers, advisers, recurring earnings, gross margin, income and FUM.
It stated there was a consumer attrition charge of simply 2.4%, with repeat recommendation ranges of 94% and a consumer satisfaction rating of 98%.
The attrition charge quantity consists of purchasers who’ve handed away or exited as a perform of divorce. Fairstone stated eradicating these components from the evaluation confirmed a pre- and post-acquisition consumer retention charge near 100%.
Fairstone used its newest annual report back to announce a brand new mission assertion: “To be essentially the most trusted wealth administration agency within the UK and Eire.” It’s backed its ambition with an up to date ten-point technique, the fruits of an eight-month plan to put the foundations for important future enlargement.
It features a transfer to a brand new head workplace, as soon as the HQ of Nike UK, in Sunderland’s Doxford Worldwide Enterprise Park, and is strengthened by a sequence of additives to the manager, IT, M&A and compliance groups, along with investments in consumer and adviser platform know-how.
Chief govt Lee Hartley stated: “We’ve got invested a further £4.1m in our useful resource base to make sure that we have now the folks to underpin the progress.”
He added: “Outcomes of this kind merely can’t be achieved until you might be persistently delivering nice outcomes for purchasers – and that’s why all of our colleagues must be congratulated for the very good work they proceed to do.”
Fairstone chairman David Hickey stated: “2022 was a turbulent time for monetary markets nevertheless, Fairstone continued to thrive, rising consumer numbers, advisers, revenues and EBITDA respectively, displaying important development in each facet of the group’s actions. This has created substantial ahead movement which has been carried into 2023.”
The corporate has been busy making various acquisitions this yr. Final week it introduced plans to amass £120m AUM Kings Lynn-based Chartered Monetary Planning agency Allen Tomas & Co. Earlier in November it acquired South West-based Station Monetary IFA and County Durham-based Superior Monetary Providers, including £380m AUM.
In July it acquired £1.5bn AUM Midlands wealth supervisor Prosperity Wealth whereas in Could it acquired £450m FUM Essex-based IFA Sacre Associates. In March it acquired £200m FUM Lincolnshire Chartered Planner agency MT Monetary Administration.
Its first deal of the yr was buying £450m FUM Surrey Monetary Planner Mantle Monetary Planning in February.
Fairstone oversees £15bn in funds underneath administration on behalf of greater than 55,000 wealth administration purchasers.
