Structured equity options mandates

Press Release November 2015

River and Mercantile: Structured equity options mandates to shape the profile of equity returns.

In the last six months River and Mercantile Group (R&M) has been appointed to design, execute and provide ongoing management of over £1.7bn of structured equity options mandates for pension clients, including the Royal Mail Pension Plan and another FTSE 100 company's pension scheme.

James Barham, Global Head of Distribution at R&M, commented:

"With increased volatility in equity markets, we have seen a growing number of clients that are taking advantage of our market leading derivative capabilities to manage the downside exposure in their equity portfolios. The derivatives team at R&M has an exceptional long term track record in designing and managing structured equity solutions for clients over the last 10 years.

We continue to see significant demand from pensions and institutional clients for structured equity to actively manage the profile of their equity investment returns while maintaining their allocation to equities. The design and execution of these mandate demonstrates R&M's ability to design innovative, outcome oriented solutions for our clients, which are delivered to meet their governance requirements."

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Notes to editors:

About River and Mercantile

River and Mercantile Group PLC is an advisory and investment solutions business with a broad range of services, from consulting and advisory to fully delegated fiduciary management, liability driven investing and fund management. The Group operates through four principal divisions: Investment Solutions encompassing both advisory and fiduciary management, Derivative Solutions providing structured equity and LDI, Equity Solutions providing both UK and Global equity strategies and the Multi Asset division providing, Dynamic Asset Allocation and other multi asset based solutions. 

R&M has assets under management of £22 billion and assets under advice in excess of £30bn.

For further information please contact:

River and Mercantile :

James Barham

Global Head of Distribution.

0207 601 6262

Quill PR :

Hugo Mortimer-Harvey

Managing Director

0207 466 5054