Brewin Dolphin launches alternatives fund to enhance £6.6bn MPS range

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8 February 2022

Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin is today announcing the launch of the MI Select Managers (MISM) Alternatives Fund as the fifth fund in its segregated mandates range. These funds are the building blocks for its successful Managed Portfolio Service (MPS) and the MI Brewin Dolphin Voyager fund range for advisers. MPS has seen strong growth since its launch in 2008. In the last five years it grew from £1.6bn in 2016 to £6.6bn in 20211.


David Hood

The new alternatives fund invests in property, commodities and absolute return to give diversification to advisers’ clients’ portfolios and to counter times of equity market volatility. The fund, which sits alongside the four other segregated mandates covering UK Equity, UK Equity Income, North American Equity and Global Bonds, will reduce the cost for advisers’ clients of accessing the alternative asset classes.

In line with its segregated mandates strategy, Brewin Dolphin, as fund sponsor, will run the mandates for this fund alongside exceptional third-party managers, including Schroder, Muzinich and NN Investment Partners. In addition, there will be holdings of precious metals through ETCs (Exchange Traded Commodities) along with investments into collective funds and investment trusts. Asset allocation decisions are made by Brewin Dolphin’s in-house research and investment solutions teams and are implemented monthly. The company has appointed Maitland, a global advisory and administration firm, as the ACD (Authorised Corporate Director) and administrator for the fund.

In 2018, Brewin Dolphin enhanced the structure of its MPS to make it more cost efficient and scalable, and to leverage its economies of scale to reduce the third-party manager charges.

In the four years since the launch of the MI Select Managers segregated mandates, advisers’ clients have seen significant cost savings. The addition of the alternatives fund will see further anticipated cost savings across the range of £1.2m each year for advisers’ clients2.

David Hood, head of investment solutions at Brewin Dolphin, said: “We are excited to launch the new MI Select Managers Alternatives Fund, which will enable us to offer access to some parts of the investment universe that our fund research team have covered for many years but have been difficult to access through platforms in a cost-effective way. We have chosen some of the best investment strategies in the alternatives space and are pleased to be able to offer this service to advisers’ clients.”

Antony Champion, head of intermediaries at Brewin Dolphin, said: “When we decided to enhance our MPS by launching the segregated mandates strategy, at the heart of that decision was a desire to offer a cost-effective, streamlined investment solution that catered for the needs of more advisers’ clients. Today’s launch of the MI Select Managers Alternatives Fund is testament to the continued innovation and enhancement of our propositions for the benefit of advisers’ clients.”

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PRESS INFORMATION

For further information, please contact:
Richard Janes richard.janes@brewin.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0) 20 3201 3343
Siân Robertson Sian.Robertson@brewin.co.uk / Tel: (0) 20 3201 3026
Payal Nair payal.nair@brewin.co.uk / Tel: +44 (0) 20 3201 3342

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Brewin Dolphin
Brewin Dolphin is a UK FTSE 250 provider of discretionary wealth management. With £59.0* billion in total funds, we offer award-winning, personalised wealth management services that meet the varied needs of our clients including individuals, charities and corporates.

Our services range from bespoke, discretionary investment management to retirement planning and tax-efficient investing. Our focus on discretionary investment management has led to significant growth in client funds and we now manage £52.0* billion on a discretionary basis.

Our intermediary business manages £19.0* billion of assets for over 1,700 advice firms either on a discretionary basis or via our Managed Portfolio Service, the MI Brewin Dolphin Voyager fund range and Sustainable MPS.

In line with the premium we place on personal relationships, we’ve built a network of 33 offices across the UK, Jersey and Republic of Ireland, staffed by qualified investment managers and financial planners. We are committed to the most exacting standards of client service, with long-term thinking and absolute focus on our clients’ needs at the core.

For more information, visit: www.brewin.co.uk

 *as at 31st December 2021.

[1]31 December 2016 to 31 December 2021 (Brewin Dolphin Q1 results)
2Based on the savings across all active MPS models except active MPS Global Equity, which has no allocation to alternatives.

 


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