2025 Sponsors

Skipton Group led by Skipton Building Society, is made up of different organisations with shared goals. We are built on two core foundations – homes and money. Across our businesses, we offer products and services that make a difference to millions of lives. We help people have a home. Save for life ahead. Support long-term financial well-being. We innovate, campaign on the issues that matter to customers, and strive to have a positive impact in the communities where we operate.

https://www.skiptongroup.com/

Nucleus Financial Platforms is one of the UK's leading independent groups for investment platforms, products and wealthtech software. It’s the only large-scale group with a comprehensive range of bespoke platform solutions to meet the needs of advisory and investment management firms of all sizes. It operates the Nucleus Wrap and James Hay Online retail investment platforms, and through Curtis Banks and Talbot and Muir is one of the UK’s largest administrators of SIPP and SSAS products. With the wealthtech experience of Third Financial and Dunstan Thomas, Nucleus now powers some of the industry’s leading product providers, advisory firms and consolidators, discretionary investment managers, and institutions with enterprise-wide, platform software solutions.

Working exclusively in partnership with over 5,300 financial advisory firms, the group now administers over £100 billion of investments on behalf of over 230,000 UK customers, seeking to deliver great service and financial outcomes for them, and ultimately help make their retirement more rewarding.

*As at February 2025 | https://nucleusfinancial.com

The People’s Pension, provided by People’s Partnership, provides more than 6 million people in the UK, across all sectors. As a business without shareholders, it puts its customers at its heart, reinvesting its profits to benefit them. It helps people build financial foundations for life by providing straightforward and accessible products that can benefit everyone and championing better financial outcomes for people across the UK.

Quilter is one of the UK’s leading wealth managers. We manage approximately £120bn of customer investments, supporting them as their financial requirements evolve throughout their lives. We achieve this through quality advice, strong long term investment management performance and a commitment to building long-term relationships and by delivering award-winning customer service. We're here to help people have a brighter financial future.

Standard Life is a brand that has been trusted to look after peoples’ life savings for nearly 200 years.

Today it proudly serves millions of customers who come to Standard Life directly, through advisers and through their employers’ pension scheme.

Standard Life is part of Phoenix Group, the largest long-term savings and retirement business in the UK. We’re proud to be building on nearly 200 years of Standard Life heritage together.

Our products include a variety of Pensions, Bonds and Retirement options to suit people’s needs, helping our customers to invest and save for their future. We’re proud to offer a leading range of sustainable and responsible investment options.

Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment management companies, offering investments, advice and retirement services, and insights to individual investors, institutions, and financial professionals. Based in Malvern, Pennsylvania and with offices worldwide, Vanguard manages $10.4 trillion on behalf of 50 million clients (as of November 30, 2024). Vanguard operates under a unique, client-owned structure and adheres to simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

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Capital Group is one of the oldest and largest asset management companies in the world, managing multi-asset, equity and fixed income investment strategies for different types of investors. Since 1931, Capital Group has been singularly focused on delivering superior, consistent results for long-term investors using high conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability. Today, Capital Group works with financial intermediaries and institutions to manage more than US$2.8 trillion1 in long-term assets for investors around the world.

We are an insights-led strategic corporate and financial communications consultancy. Our mission is to empower clients to unlock and realise the full potential of their organisations, teams, and brands.

Moneybox is an award-winning saving and investing platform on a mission to help people build wealth with confidence so they can enjoy life, today and tomorrow. Moneybox supports more than 1 million people across the UK to save, invest, buy a home and plan for a comfortable retirement and today has over £10bn in assets under administration. The business reported its first full year of profitability in 2023.

Schroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions, with £773.7 billion (€912.6 billion; $978.1 billion) of assets under management at 30 June 2024. As a UK-listed FTSE100 company, Schroders has a market capitalisation of circa £6 billion and over 6,000 employees across 38 locations. Established in 1804, Schroders remains true to its roots as a family-founded business. The Schroder family continues to be a significant shareholder, holding approximately 44% of the issued share capital.

Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies. The company offers innovative products and solutions through four core business divisions: Public Markets, Solutions, Wealth Management, and Schroders Capital, which focuses on private markets, including private equity, renewable infrastructure investing, private debt & credit alternatives, and real estate.

Schroders aims to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. This means directing capital towards resilient businesses with sustainable business models, consistently with the investment goals of its clients. Schroders serves a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net-worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.

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