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Paul Bryant

Inflows main contributor to 84% AUM growth in FY21

Impax continues to scale at a pace unmatched by UK-listed asset managers. AUM grew to £37.2bn on 30 Sep (end of FY21), 84% up on the FY20 close of £20.2bn. Net inflows accounted for £10.7bn (63%) of the increase, with market movements accounting for £6.4bn (37%).

Q4 inflows of £1.5bn show continuing impressive momentum in winning new business. Over FY21, average quarterly inflows were £2.6bn, 204% up on the £865m average of FY20, which was in turn 251% up on the FY19 average of £345m.

With the structural shift towards sustainable investing continuing unabated (in Europe, sustainable funds attracted 47% of all fund inflows in H1 21, according to Morningstar), and Impax growing even faster than the overall sustainable fund market (refer our Sep 21 note for details), we remain optimistic on Impax’s future growth prospects.

Couple that with the closing FY21 AUM level of £37.2bn being some distance above our previous forecast of £34.5bn, and our fair value increases from 1,205p per share to 1,300p - still roughly 25% above the current share price.
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Brooks Macdonald Group PLC

Brooks MacDonald Group is an independent investment management firm. Co. has four segments: Investment Management, which provides discretionary investment management to private investors, pension funds, charities and trusts through Bespoke Portfolio Service and Managed Portfolio Service; Financial Planning, which delivers both fee based financial advice to high net-worth families, and employee benefit consultancy to small and medium sized employers throughout the U.K.; Funds and Property Management, which engages in new investment across the range of funds with the Defensive Capital Fund; and International, which includes the Channel Islands business discretionary funds under management.

Charles Stanley Group PLC

Impax Asset Management Group plc

Impax Asset Management Group is an investment firm, providing listed and private equity strategies primarily to institutional clients. As of Sep 30 2017, Co. has total assets under management and advice of £7.30 billion.

Liontrust Asset Management Plc

Polar Capital Holdings

Polar Capital Holdings is an investment management company providing professional and institutional investors a range of geographical and sector funds. Co. manages 25 funds and four managed accounts across a range of long only and alternative products. Co. has one class of business, being the provision of investment management and advisory services. As of Mar 31 2017, Co. had total assets under management of £9.27 billion.

River and Mercantile Group PLC

Tatton Asset Management

Tatton Asset Management is engaged in providing a range of services to the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") directly authorized financial adviser ("DA IFA") marketplace encompassing discretionary fund management, regulatory and compliance services and mortgage services. Co.'s discretionary portfolio management ("DFM") service operates on ten United Kingdom adviser WRAP platforms and can be integrated into the growing number of adviser WRAP platforms in the market. Co. provides support services to independent financial advisors ("IFA"s), enabling DA IFA firms to provide compliant and effective investment portfolio management for their platform based clients.

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Equity Development
Equity Development

​Equity Development enables companies to become better understood and supported by investors. Since our launch in 1996 we have consistently focused on helping our clients improve their communication and relationships with both existing and potential shareholders. Our clients have come from a wide variety of sectors and domiciles, are both private and quoted and range in size from micro-cap to $multi-billions. We offer free access to company research notes written by experienced analysts. These notes include detailed forecasts, financial models and a fair value. We host regular Private Investor Forums at which investors have the opportunity to hear company directors present, and to ask questions. These are free to attend. We broadcast live Webinars with company management that include active Q&A. We also make the recordings available online. We arrange face to face meetings between private investors and company management. We are active users of Twitter, commenting daily on company news, share price moves, Directors’ Dealings, Equity Development Research Notes & Events.

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Paul Bryant

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