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Hargreaves Lansdown
Hargreaves Lansdown Limited is a British financial services company based in Bristol, England. It is the largest retail investment site in the UK. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by CVC Capital Partners, Nordic Capital and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in March 2025. The company is one of the United Kingdom’s leading financial services firms and among the country’s largest asset and wealth management providers.
The company was founded on 1 July 1981 by Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Lansdown who had initially traded from a bedroom. Hargreaves Lansdown initially provided information to clients on unit trusts and tax planning matters. The company grew to be one of the largest in Bristol, headquartered at One College Square in the regenerated Canon's Marsh area.
The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 15 May 2007, in a floatation described as "heavily oversubscribed", which led to the combined stakes of the company's two founders reducing from 80 per cent to 60 per cent of the business.
In April 2009, Stephen Lansdown sold a stake of 4.7 per cent for a sum of £47.2 million to put towards the cost of building Bristol City F.C.'s new stadium, reducing his stake to 22.9 per cent.
The company became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index in March 2011. It was briefly relegated from the index between November 2023 and May 2024, before leaving the index upon delisting in March 2025.
In 2019, Hargreaves Lansdown suffered reputational damage when trading was suspended in Woodford Investment Management's Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF), which Hargreaves Lansdown had been promoting through its Wealth 50 list despite concerns about the fund's investment strategy and underperformance. In October 2019, retired founder Peter Hargreaves, still the owner of 32% of Hargreaves Lansdown, was reported to say:
It’s annoyed the hell out of me that it would appear he [Neil Woodford] has not been truthful with Hargreaves Lansdown. But it’s also annoyed me that they [Hargreaves Lansdown] let it go on so long ... The clients have been stuffed in this horrible Woodford fund.
Of some 300,000 people who had invested in the WEIF, 130,000 invested through Hargreaves Lansdown. In October 2022, claims firm RGL filed a High Court claim on behalf of an initial 3,200 investors against Hargreaves Lansdown. By November 2024, RGL said the number of people suing Hargreaves Lansdown had almost doubled in two years, to over 5,000, and could reach 10,000 by March 2025. Hargreaves Lansdown had rejected the first set of RGL claims in 2022 "for lack of a substantive basis of claim".
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Hargreaves Lansdown
Hargreaves Lansdown Limited is a British financial services company based in Bristol, England. It is the largest retail investment site in the UK. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by CVC Capital Partners, Nordic Capital and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in March 2025. The company is one of the United Kingdom’s leading financial services firms and among the country’s largest asset and wealth management providers.
The company was founded on 1 July 1981 by Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Lansdown who had initially traded from a bedroom. Hargreaves Lansdown initially provided information to clients on unit trusts and tax planning matters. The company grew to be one of the largest in Bristol, headquartered at One College Square in the regenerated Canon's Marsh area.
The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 15 May 2007, in a floatation described as "heavily oversubscribed", which led to the combined stakes of the company's two founders reducing from 80 per cent to 60 per cent of the business.
In April 2009, Stephen Lansdown sold a stake of 4.7 per cent for a sum of £47.2 million to put towards the cost of building Bristol City F.C.'s new stadium, reducing his stake to 22.9 per cent.
The company became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index in March 2011. It was briefly relegated from the index between November 2023 and May 2024, before leaving the index upon delisting in March 2025.
In 2019, Hargreaves Lansdown suffered reputational damage when trading was suspended in Woodford Investment Management's Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF), which Hargreaves Lansdown had been promoting through its Wealth 50 list despite concerns about the fund's investment strategy and underperformance. In October 2019, retired founder Peter Hargreaves, still the owner of 32% of Hargreaves Lansdown, was reported to say:
It’s annoyed the hell out of me that it would appear he [Neil Woodford] has not been truthful with Hargreaves Lansdown. But it’s also annoyed me that they [Hargreaves Lansdown] let it go on so long ... The clients have been stuffed in this horrible Woodford fund.
Of some 300,000 people who had invested in the WEIF, 130,000 invested through Hargreaves Lansdown. In October 2022, claims firm RGL filed a High Court claim on behalf of an initial 3,200 investors against Hargreaves Lansdown. By November 2024, RGL said the number of people suing Hargreaves Lansdown had almost doubled in two years, to over 5,000, and could reach 10,000 by March 2025. Hargreaves Lansdown had rejected the first set of RGL claims in 2022 "for lack of a substantive basis of claim".
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