Liontrust Completes Acquisition of the Architas UK Investment Business

Liontrust, specialist fund management company, announced the completion of the acquisition of the Architas UK Investment Business – Architas Multi-Manager Limited and Architas Advisory Services Limited – from AXA S.A.

The acquisition, which was announced on 1 July 2020 and has since received regulatory and shareholder approval, has created a significant multi-asset multi-manager proposition by product range and AuMA.

The enlarged Liontrust Multi-Asset team, headed by John Husselbee with Sheldon MacDonald as Deputy Head, is one of the most experienced and highly respected in the UK market.

The Liontrust brand is being used for all the target risk portfolios and risk profiled, income generating and specialist funds managed by the Multi-Asset team.

John Ions, Chief Executive of Liontrust, said: “This is an important strategic acquisition for Liontrust. Completing the purchase expands our distribution among financial advisers through the scale of the combined multi-asset businesses, the strength of the merged investment team, the broad range of multi-asset multi-manager portfolios and funds and enhanced client service.

“Financial advisers are key clients for Liontrust because of the responsibility they have as guardians of people’s savings. By offering both risk profiled funds and target risk portfolios, we will help advisers meet their suitability requirements by being able to choose the solution that best addresses their clients’ individual needs for investment and risk.

“Given our investment, sales and marketing capability, I have great confidence that we will grow the multi-asset portfolios and funds over the next few years.”