Unique Client Benefits

Unique potential of our global approach make the difference to your investment experience. Your safety, your money growth, your personal treatment, your potential tax savings, and more…

Global Approach to Investments

Safety

Personal

Assured expertise and what about performance?

Discretionary Investment Management

A unique approach to capital gains and income recognition

Additional potential benefits of direct equity holdings

US Persons

Global Approach to Investments

We believe a global perspective on investment can help protect against long-term deterioration of wealth. Indeed intuitively, it is not difficult to ponder and recognise it unlikely that investment performance of any one country will out-perform all other countries consistently over time. So, we try to potentially give you a better chance on average by investing globally.

Safety

Your relationship is personal and close, but with Raymond James behind it all – is huge.  Raymond James is a Global Investment Company with many billions of money and many tens of thousands of representatives, but you will have direct access to and a personal relationship with your investment manager – either Leighton Bascom or Matthew Hogg and the team at London Road.

Personal

You will be able to speak with your investment manager directly and regularly.  Indeed, we request to have at least a quarterly personal review of your investments and objectives.  As big as Raymond James is globally and in the UK, they provide all essential services, and more, to each office and let them act independently to serve the individual needs of each client – you.  Leighton Bascom says, “It was a true breath of fresh air to align with the services of a company to serve my clients with a ‘make it happen and can do attitude’ that put clients first rather than company interests ahead of clients.”

Assured expertise and what about performance?

The education and professional qualifications at London Road are only the surface of the expertise that comes with serving you.  Years of experience in investment markets, continuing professional training and on-the-job updating of our skill and knowledge continue to hone the performance and ability we have to help you meet your individual investment needs.

Discretionary Investment Management

Raymond James, London Road is home to discretionary investment managers with the necessary authorisation to manage investments ‘suited to you’ on a discretionary basis.  Rather than using funds as the main vehicle for investment, we largely manage investments in direct equities on the UK and global stock markets, as well as publicly traded direct fixed income of well-known companies and countries, as appropriate.  This may have certain benefits for our clients such as potentially lower costs, possible beneficial capital gains treatment, and other issues that we would be happy to discuss.

A unique approach to capital gains and income recognition

You will see us work with you each end-of-tax-year to attempt to mitigate recognised capital gains. What is more, is that if you need income, we will also actively work to help you minimise recognised taxable income.  Because we use direct investment in investments, we are often able to sell an investment at break-even or at a loss to generate income rather than specifically use income generating securities that will derive income with higher tax burdens.  We do not let tax ‘wag the dog’ so to speak, meaning that we do not try to structure investment portfolios for tax purposes to the detriment of investment performance.  However, we do try to work smart for your benefit as appropriate.  Just the same, your portfolio will hopefully generate many gains and income. So, both potential taxable capital gains and potential income tax may be incurred.  We think we have simply found that some straight forward and uncomplicated methodology that can help mitigate them.

Additional potential benefits of direct equity holdings

  • Potentially cheaper.  By holding an investment portfolio of direct equity or fixed income investments traded on the major exchanges, you have the potential benefit that your overall running costs are less than in a managed portfolio of funds.
  • Mitigation – Through holding actual company stock and debt of companies and governments, you have direct ownership and may have some benefit in the form of mitigating loss during financial catastrophic events.

US Persons

We have US persons investment capabilities – please inquire if applicable.