About us – Partners

St. James’s Place (SJP) is a leading UK wealth management organisation. Founded in 1991, SJP was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1997 and is a FTSE 100 company with over £148 billion in funds under management. The company provides face-to-face advice to clients based on their individual needs and circumstances, adapting the advice as requirements change over time to ensure that recommendations remain appropriate.

SJP’s ambition is to be a leading responsible business in the UK. This means considering responsible and sustainable decision-making in everything they do. How they help society move forward with confidence and play an important role in supporting their client’s financial well-being through the face-to-face advice provided by the SJP Partnership. In doing so, they have an opportunity to help address the social, environmental and economic challenges faced by all in society.

The Finance in Society Research Institute is delighted that SJP has been a key supporter from inception, whilst also encouraging and nurturing the development of an MSc in Finance and MBA in Financial Planning with the University of Gloucestershire.

FinTech West runs a free community and hosts no-cost events open to anyone interested in technology in finance. We collaborate alongside established financial institutions, finance solution providers, professional services, education and, of course, FinTechs.  

Our community of nearly 5,000 offers a diverse range of skills and experience which we bring together to drive “Impact Through Collaboration” via knowledge sharing, access to expertise and shared projects. 

FinTech West engages in a wide variety of work regionally and nationally, driving activities across 5 key “strategic challenges” which are: 

• Education – helping close the gap between industry and education by enhancing skills, enabling student engagement and involvement in research work.  

• Sustainable Finance – environmental and financial inclusion for the benefit of society with a particular emphasis on real solutions. 

• InsurTech – helping enable innovation in insurance for the benefit of the industry and customers. 

• Blockchain – driving the understanding and use of practical solutions within finance and connecting research with industry. 

• South Coast – bringing the cluster together in this area to realise the potential in FinTech, financial services and related businesses. 

If any of these areas are of interest, get in touch at [email protected] or simply join the community for updates by visiting our website.

The Integrity Centre aims to explore the deep relationship between integrity and responsible business. Our ambition is to contribute to making responsible business a core part of an organisation’s purpose and actions.

Through action research, open enrolment seminars and laboratories, and bespoke missions, the Integrity Centre aims to be an instrumental partner in not just achieving your responsible business goals but in ensuring that they are attainted with integrity and are truly aligned with your values.

We work with complexity and uncertainty and ask questions of the assumptions we use as guidelines to create certainty which rarely exists. We do responsible business and being responsible and talk different ways of being for the greater good. We do not build facades, but we do engage with the business of reimagining and building good legacy. 

Our approach stirs thinking but does not shake those that we work with. Rooted in our deep experience of practice and theory we ask questions of and disrupt fixed mind-sets with the intention of influencing better more whole ways of showing up in the world; considering different ways of doing and being.

We catalyse critical thinking. We work closely with our clients to open pathways to different realities by challenging conventions, and by making sense of their why, how and what and the way in which this influences organisational culture; often misaligned through mismatched values and purpose. We work with the difficult questions many are fearful of asking and speak the truth to those in power. 

We consider what integrity is:

• What does it mean to act with integrity?
• How does it materialise?
• And how does it materially contribute to changing the way we exist and do business?
• Is there even such a thing as responsible business without integrity?

Visit our website to learn more about The Integrity Centre.