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| Company type | Public limited company |
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| LSE: SDR LSE: SDRC FTSE 100 Component | |
| Industry | Investment management |
| Founded | 1804; 221 years ago (1804) |
| Founder | Johann Heinrich Schröder |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
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| Products | |
| Revenue |  £2,970.0 million (2024)[1] |
 £640.5 million (2024)[1] | |
| £433.0 million (2024)[1] | |
| AUM | £778.7 billion (2024)[1] |
Number of employees | 6,071 (2024)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | Cazenove (stock broker), Asia Pacific Land Limited, Blue Asset Management, Schroder & Co Bank AG,Sandaire Investment Office, Schroders Capital |
| Website | www |
Schroders plc is a British multinationalasset management company headquartered inLondon, England. Founded in 1804, it employs over 6,000 people worldwide in 38 locations around Europe, America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It is traded on theLondon Stock Exchange and is a constituent of theFTSE 100 Index.
Schroders bears the name of theSchröder family, aHanseatic family ofHamburg with branches in other countries. The Schroder family, through trustee companies, individual ownership and charities, control 47.93 per cent of the company's ordinary shares.[3]
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Schroders' history began in 1804 whenJohann Heinrich Schröder (John Henry) became a partner in J.F. Schröder & Co, the London-based firm of his brother, Johann Friedrich (John Frederick), founded in 1800.[4] In 1818 J. Henry Schröder & Co. was established in London.[5]
During theAmerican Civil War, Schroders "issued £3m bonds in 1863 for theConfederacy".[6]
Key events in the development of the business include the establishment of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation ('Schrobanco') as acommercial bank in New York in 1923.[7]
Further key events included the public offering of the shares in J. Henry Schroder & Co. Ltd on theLondon Stock Exchange in 1959[8] and the acquisition of Helbert, Wagg & Co, a leading issuing house, in 1962.[9]
In 1986 the company disposed of Schrobanco, its commercial banking arm in New York and acquired 50% ofWertheim & Co., a mid-tier New York basedinvestment bank, whose activities more closely mirrored those of the London business.[10] Schroders played a leading role in the privatisations carried out by the UK Government in the 1980s and was to grow dramatically underWinfried Bischoff.[11] Schroders was worth £30 million when he took over asCEO in 1984; in 2000 the company sold its investment banking division toCitigroup for £1.3 billion.[12] Citigroup's European investment banking arm traded as Schroder Salomon Smith Barney from 2000 to 2003.[13]
In 2013, Schroders purchased the capital management arm ofCazenove in a deal worth £424 million.[14]
Schroders bought the London-basedSandaire Investment Office in September 2020.[15]
Schroders announced in June 2021 that it was uniting its specialist private assets capabilities under the newly launched Schroders Capital brand.[16]
In 2023, Schroders announced that Chris Durack and Karine Szenberg were appointed co-heads to its client groups in an internal restructuring effort to drive growth across the Asia-Pacific area.[17]
In September 2024, Schroders named finance chief Richard Oldfield as the new CEO, succeeding Peter Harrison, effective 8 November 2024.[18]
In November 2024, Schroders announced that they were reducing the size of its executive committee to 9 members from 22. As part of the overhaul, Ed Houghton, who was most recently a director at Legal & General Group Plc, would join Schroders and its management committee as head of strategy and investor engagement.[19]
In April 2012, Schroders acquired a 25% stake inAxis Mutual Fund.[20][21]
In December 2021, the firm signed up to theUN's Women Empowerment Principles, an initiative to support women in the workplace which was founded by theUnited Nations Global Compact andUN Women.[22]
As at 31 December 2021, Schroders was responsible for assets worth £615.2 billion on behalf of clients including corporations, insurance companies, local and public authorities, charities, pension funds, high-net-worth individuals and retail investors.[1]
In June 2014, Schroders' Multi-Asset Investments and Portfolio Solutions (MAPS) announced a collaboration with ProfessorAnthony G. Constantinides, Director of the newly createdImperial CollegeFinancial signal processing Laboratory (FSP).[23][24]
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