Investment Management Platform

If you are a directly authorised investment management firm or investment focused financial planning practice, and are looking to enhance your business with the Raymond James Investment Management Platform, you’ll enjoy all the rewards of delivering a highly competitive wealth management solution with optimal efficiency and control.

Raymond James’ Investment Management Platform is the leading platform for firms wishing to ‘insource’ investment management. As an LSE member firm with direct market access to 25+ global exchanges, we are able to provide rapid, cost-effective trade execution for listed securities and funds.

Our platform services are delivered in an open architecture environment, offering unprecedented access to a broad range of assets and tax wrappers, and ensuring there is no conflict to a wealth manager’s unbiased investment selection.

Our Trading and Rebalancing Portfolio Management system provides institutional quality trade generation, portfolio modelling, and rebalancing tools. Our trading solution provides simple and intuitive functionality, reducing the time spent managing portfolios. The model comparison tool provides graphical representation of portfolio positions against agreed tolerances, allowing investment managers to rebalance at optimal times, avoiding unnecessary and costly trading. Wealth Managers are able to maintain their own trading preferences, giving them more control over their trading process and better equipping them to manage their clients’ investments and manage risk.

Raymond James provides the tools and resources for Financial Planners to develop and deliver your Investment Management process

Our tools and resources include:

Access to high quality institutional securities market and fund research from multiple providers, including Raymond James’ own research*
Access to a full range of investments, with the ability to execute listed securities trades in real time, with no additional 3^rd party broker fees for UK listed securities, achieving optimal prices for investors
Robust reporting, including TWR and MWR performance, that meets FCA requirements for Discretionary Fund Management and online 24/7 access to holdings and transactions via Client Access
Access to a full range of funds, onshore and offshore, ETFs and Investment Trusts, with real time buy-and-sell, alleviating time out of the market
Investor Account Protection through our financially sound custodian (Pershing Securities Limited), with cash diversified across a number of banks
CGIX CGT calculator provides ‘what if’ scenarios to minimize Capital Gains Tax liabilities

*Research is available via a research aggregation platform. Costs will apply.

In this business model, a service agreement is established between Raymond James and the intermediary firm.

Whilst our Employee Affiliation, Independent Contracting and Professional Partnership business models offer compliance, supervision, regulatory authorisation and professional indemnity cover, these services are excluded from the Investment Management Platform business model.

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“Raymond James’ open architecture platform, with a transparent charging structure and access to a wide range of asset classes and investment vehicles, gives us the ability to create bespoke portfolios for our clients. It is a platform designed specifically for the target market that we service.”

Jeremy Arthur, Harpsden Wealth Management
“Having worked with the team at Raymond James for several years, I value the professional and timely approach they display for technical queries, both on behalf of the wealth manager they are representing and when needing to inform the asset management firms of any changes or updates. The planning and communication that the events team put into making the conferences such a great success is first class - the whole team is a pleasure to work with.”

Henderson Global Investors, Investment Services UK

We appreciate that market commentary can be informative and helpful, particularly in times of market volatility.

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Black Monday

On 19 October 1987, the stock markets experienced a dramatic plunge that prompted many firms to shut down their trading desks and turn off their phones to minimize internal losses. Raymond James refused to do the same. Our desks stayed open to help meet clients’ needs, resulting in our first and only unprofitable quarter since the firm went public in 1983.

Who was Raymond James?

The Raymond in our name is actually from Edward Raymond, owner of a 15-employee mutual fund sales group, Raymond and Associates, along Florida’s west coast. He sold his company to Bob James on 15 July 1964, on condition that the surviving firm be called Raymond, James & Associates.

Three days after the sale, Ed Raymond was involved in a near-fatal automobile accident and never joined the firm.

Nonetheless, even after Raymond had passed away, Bob James insisted that his name remain on the door – ahead of James’ own. That was a promise he made to Ed Raymond three days before the accident, and Bob James was a man who kept his promises.

Bear Market of 1974

The severe bear market of 1974 threatened the existence of Raymond James, which was bleeding capital by the day. Tom James, his father and other leaders took extreme measures to keep the firm afloat, slashing costs, foregoing paychecks and even attempting to sell the firm for just enough capital to protect client assets and retain as many associates as possible. The story could have ended very differently if not for a sharp upturn and continued rebound in the stock markets late in the year.
This “fortunate near-death experience” (as Tom calls it) permanently marked his psyche, and has influenced our firm’s character and culture since, solidifying the conservative nature that emphasizes a determined focus on the long term – both for clients and the firm.

Taking Raymond James Public

When consideration was being given to taking Raymond James public, Tom James penned a letter to shareholders (largely employees at the time).
He wrote:

” … the public offering should be considered as a statement of our independence. While this is a psychological rather than an economic rationale, it is nonetheless very important. We have asserted for some time that we are not interested in becoming a small part of a very large corporation. That assertion results mainly from the inclinations of management rather than the economic benefits associated with either alternative. The public stock offering affords us the opportunity to enjoy a little bit of the best of both worlds. While shareholders will be given liquidity at fair market value, we will still have the ability to control our own destiny.”

After 40+ years of Tom’s leadership, upon becoming CEO, Paul Reilly was often questioned about whether the company might ultimately surrender its cherished independence and be acquired by some larger entity. His response: “Not while I’m around.” It’s a theme that continues today.