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.
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, and the values of personal service and individual commitment sometimes sacrificed on the altar of rationalisation.
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 old-fashioned standards of service and courtesy with the more modern attributes of a disciplined investment process and efficient technology.
With ten regional offices throughout the UK, and over six hundred employees we are a fairly large firm, but our investment management team is still modestly sized compared with the world's giant groupings. 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.