DFM for Financial Advisers

Our Discretionary Fund Management (DFM) service has been specifically designed to work in conjunction with you on behalf of your clients.

We have worked closely with professional advisers like you for more than 20 years. This gives us a detailed understanding of your specific needs. Our national network of 11 offices helps us develop close partnerships with financial advisers throughout the UK.

The core of our DFM offering is to provide a completely bespoke and tailored investment solution to accommodate whatever requirements your client may have.

Our bespoke service is also supported by a range of specialist investment services offered both directly and around a variety of tax wrappers.

We specialise in carrying out the active day-to-day investment work that can occupy so much of your time. We also take away much of the regulatory risk, so you can stay focused on your clients.

Working with Investec Wealth & Investment is an excellent experience. They are not only on hand to help develop our advisers’ understanding of the markets but also provide outstanding returns to clients in a challenging economic environment.

– John Beale, Director, Pi Financial Dixon Sutcliffe & Co

Benefits to you

Reduce compliance risk: Let us take responsibility for matching investments to your clients’ needs.

Gain a reliable revenue stream: You can share up to 0.75% of the annual fee.

Enjoy wider versatility and range: Our service allows the management of assets within general accounts, ISAs and offshore bonds to pension funds and trust assets. These services are available directly or via third-party providers, such as platforms, offshore wrappers and SIPPs.

Online support: You can use our dedicated website to download literature and securely access client portfolio valuations and statements.

Benefits to your clients

Our specialist team can react quickly in volatile markets, so there’s no need to contact your client each time something changes.

Tax-efficient management: We help your client take advantage of tax allowances. We will preserve the tax-efficient status of existing ISAs and maximise the benefits of ISAs in current and future tax years, where requested.

In specie transfers: We can transfer your client’s existing investments to us without encashment (subject to the terms of existing provider).

Reports, valuations and consolidated tax vouchers: We provide a full annual report to help you and your client complete their tax return. We also provide regular portfolio valuations and commentaries.

Online valuations: Your client can see portfolio valuations and statements on our secure website.

Flexible income payments: We collect all dividends and interest on your client’s behalf. We can arrange for income to be paid regularly into a designated bank account.

Client protection: In the unlikely event of liquidation, assets held in our wholly-owned nominee company are ring-fenced from the PLC group. We syndicate cash balances among a number of leading banks to maximise deposit protection under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). We also have market-leading insurance and professional indemnity cover.