STANDARD ADVISORY LONDON LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-29 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£86M
+5.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£42M
+8.1% vs 2023
Employees
150
+1.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£10M
+124.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £79,952,000 | £85,888,000 | |
| Operating profit | £4,625,000 | £10,515,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,584,000 | £10,278,000 | |
| Net profit | £3,452,000 | £7,740,000 | |
| Cash | £81,501,000 | £86,011,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £64,605,000 | £74,125,000 | |
| Net assets | £39,108,000 | £42,291,000 | |
| Equity | £39,108,000 | £42,291,000 | |
| Average employees | 148 | 150 | |
| Wages | £26,747,000 | £28,116,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £2,089,000 | £2,183,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+7.4%
£79,952,000 £85,888,000
-
Cash
+5.5%
£81,501,000 £86,011,000
-
Net assets
+8.1%
£39,108,000 £42,291,000
-
Employees
+1.4%
148 150
-
Operating profit
+127.4%
£4,625,000 £10,515,000
-
Profit before tax
+124.2%
£4,584,000 £10,278,000
-
Wages
+5.1%
£26,747,000 £28,116,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.8% | 12.2% | |
| Net margin | 4.3% | 9.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.2% | 14.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 56.9% | 58.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.31x | 3.18x | |
| Interest cover | 112.80x | 44.37x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- STANDARD ADVISORY LONDON LIMITED 2014-07-21 → present
- MOLTONPLACE LIMITED 2014-02-05 → 2014-07-21
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After reviewing the Company's performance and the available banking facilities, the Directors are satisfied that the Company has adequate access to resources to enable it to meet its obligations and to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and therefore the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “The company enters into a number of equity forwards to hedge its share price incentive schemes against changes in the SBGL's underlying share price.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHAW-TAYLOR, Gregory | Secretary | 2019-03-11 | — | — |
| CARTON, Ian Paul | Director | 2025-12-01 | Jun 1966 | Irish |
| HALLER, Guido Andre | Director | 2024-10-01 | Jun 1965 | Swiss |
| LANCASTER, Timothy James | Director | 2015-08-27 | Apr 1968 | British |
| LAWRENCE, Isabella Elizabeth | Director | 2014-11-19 | Aug 1968 | South African |
| MWEHEIRE, Patrick | Director | 2022-11-22 | Oct 1970 | Ugandan |
| SCHLEBUSCH, Peter Lloyd | Director | 2025-05-16 | Dec 1966 | South African |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMOLLETT, Susan | Secretary | 2014-11-13 | 2019-03-11 |
| TMF CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2014-02-05 | 2014-11-13 |
| LEVY, Adrian Joseph Morris | Director | 2014-02-05 | 2014-10-29 |
| POOLE, Roderick Terner Forbes | Director | 2014-11-19 | 2025-05-16 |
| PUDGE, David John | Director | 2014-02-05 | 2014-10-29 |
| RIDLEY, Simon Peter | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2025-09-23 |
| VOGEL, Gert Marthinus | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2024-10-01 |
| WALKER, Jeremy Peter | Director | 2014-11-19 | 2015-06-24 |
| WALLACE, Steven Andrew | Director | 2014-11-19 | 2016-01-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 53 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-02-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-03-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-02-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.