About Rensburg Sheppards
Rensburg Sheppards is a major investment management company. It combines the names and traditions of long-established businesses in London, Leeds and Liverpool, which have their roots in the growth of Britain's industrial and financial wealth during the nineteenth century.
Henry Rensburg started his stockbroking firm after being elected a member of the Liverpool Stock Exchange in 1873. At about the same time Stanley Battye, William Ernest Wimpenny and Abraham Dawson founded their own stockbroking firms in Yorkshire.
During the 1970s the firms of Battye, Wimpenny and Dawson merged and in 1988 the holding company floated on the London Stock Exchange. Soon after, BWD and Rensburg joined forces to create one of the leading investment management firms outside London.
In 2005, the acquisition of Carr Sheppards Crosthwaite saw Rensburg merge with three of the oldest names on the London Stock Exchange, all of whom trace their business origins back to the early nineteenth century. Investec plc held 47% of the merged company and in 2010 made an agreed offer to acquire the remaining shares.
The past ten years have been a period of unprecedented change for private client investment managers, as old established firms have merged and been taken over. While Rensburg Sheppards is itself one of the results of this process, we have striven successfully to maintain a professional, independent, and service-based culture. We aim to combine the enduring values of service and courtesy with the more modern attributes of a disciplined investment process and efficient technology.
With eleven regional offices throughout the UK, and over six hundred employees we are a fairly large firm but responsibility for investment management is devolved to smaller teams who know their clients and their needs and give a personal service. We believe that this enables us to give you the best of both worlds. You do not become a mere computer number in a vast amorphous organisation but at the same time you have the benefits of the resources of a major group.
Our parent company Investec plc is an international specialist bank and asset manager that provides a diverse range of financial products and services to a select client base in three principal markets, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia as well as certain other countries. The group was established in 1974 and currently has approximately 5900 permanent employees. Investec does not seek to be all things to all people and aims to build well defined, value-added businesses focussed on serving the needs of select market niches where the group can compete effectively.