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RNS Number : 3299O
Nucleus Financial Group PLC
28 January 2019
The announcement originally released on 28/01/2019 at 7:00am
under RNS Number 2025O has been amended as the number of customers
as at 31 December 2018 in the second paragraph should read
'customer numbers grew by 7% to 93,715'. The number of customers as
at 31 December 2018 in the highlights section remains correct.
All other details remain unchanged. The full amended text is
shown below.
28 January 2019
Nucleus Financial Group PLC
("Nucleus" or the "Company")
Q4 2018 AUA update
and
Notice of full year results
Nucleus Financial Group PLC (AIM: NUC), a leading independent
wrap platform provider, today publishes an update on its assets
under administration (AUA) in respect of the 12-month period to 31
December 2018.
The Company continues to grow AUA, which stood at GBP13.9bn as
at 31 December 2018, up 2.3% over the year against a challenging
market backdrop which saw the FTSE All Share Index decrease by 13%
and the FTSE 100 Index decrease by 12.5% during the same period.
Advisers actively using the platform increased by 6% to 1,396 over
the year while customer numbers grew by 7% to 93,715. Net inflows
for the period were impacted by continued investor caution.
AUA for the fourth quarter of 2018 fell by 5.5% reflecting a
fall in markets overall, with the FTSE All Share Index down 11% and
the FTSE 100 Index down by 10.4% in the quarter. AUA has since
recovered, in line with market movements, to GBP14.2bn as at 24
January 2019.
Highlights
- AUA increased to GBP13.9bn at the end of the period, up 2.3% over 2018;
- Advisers actively using the platform increased by 6% to 1,396
over the year (end 2017: 1,317);
- Customer numbers rose to 93,715, an increase of 7% over the period (end 2017: 87,556).
AUA and inflows
Quarter Quarter 12 months 12 months
ended ended ended ended
31 Dec 31 Dec 31 Dec 31 Dec
2018 2017 2018 2017
GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm
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Opening AUA 14,693 12,889 13,577 11,144
Inflows 462 597 2,290 2,608
Outflows (277) (205) (1,097) (940)
Net flows 185 392 1,193 1,668
Market movements (994) 296 (886) 765
Closing AUA 13,884 13,577 13,884 13,577
Daily average AUA 14,202 13,313 14,124 12,441
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David Ferguson, Nucleus' founder and CEO, commented:
"Nucleus has grown strongly in recent years and, despite the
challenging market backdrop, I am pleased to report our 12th
successive year of growth in AUA, adviser users and customer
numbers. Having listed the business in Q3 2018 and reorganised our
major outsourcing relationships in Q4 2018, we are now focused on
accelerating our growth within the sector."
Notice of results
The results for the year ending 31 December 2018 will be
announced on Tuesday 2 April 2019.
Historical flows and AUA data by quarter
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2016 2016 2016 2016 2017 2017 2017 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018
GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm GBPm
------------ ------ ------ ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
Opening
AUA 9,069 9,386 9,800 10,659 11,144 11,897 12,401 12,889 13,577 13,527 14,339 14,693
Inflows 456 458 434 507 653 671 687 597 665 600 563 462
Outflows (219) (248) (203) (214) (225) (249) (261) (205) (254) (285) (281) (277)
Net flows 237 210 231 293 428 422 426 392 411 315 282 185
Market
movements 80 204 628 192 325 82 62 296 (461) 497 72 (994)
Closing
AUA 9,386 9,800 10,659 11,144 11,897 12,401 12,889 13,577 13,527 14,339 14,693 13,884
Daily
average
AUA 8,990 9,494 10,373 10,849 11,518 12,198 12,715 13,313 13,609 14,086 14,585 14,202
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Ends
For further information please contact:
Nucleus
David Ferguson, CEO Tel: +44 (0)13 1226 9800
Stuart Geard, Chief Financial Officer
Shore Capital (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Hugh Morgan Tel: +44 (0)20 7408 4090
Edward Mansfield
Daniel Bush
Camarco (Media enquiries)
Jennifer Renwick Tel: +44 (0)20 3757 4994
Jake Thomas
Notes to Editors
About Nucleus
Nucleus is a wrap platform founded in 2006 by advisers committed
to altering the balance of power in the industry by putting the
customer centre stage. It provides independent wrap platform
services to over 1,390 active adviser users and works with more
than 800 financial adviser firms as at 31 December 2018. It is
responsible for assets under administration ("AUA") of GBP13.9bn on
behalf of more than 93,000 customers.
The multi award-winning platform offers a range of custody,
trading, payment, reporting, fee-handling, research and integration
services across a variety of tax wrappers and more than 6,500 asset
choices including cash, OEICs, unit trusts, offshore funds,
structured products and listed securities, including ETFs and
investment trusts. The platform currently facilitates over 1.1
million customer account transactions on average per month.
Nucleus has won CoreData's 'Best medium sized platform' for 2018
(and the last seven years), the Schroders 'Platform of the Year'
award for 2018 (and the last three years) and recently won 'Best
Platform' and 'Platform Innovation' at the 2018 Money Marketing
Awards.
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