Annual Financial Report

Annual Financial Report

St. James's Place

St. James’s Place Plc (“SJP”)

Annual Financial Report

SJP announces that its 2014 Annual Report and Accounts, Notice of Annual General Meeting and Form of Proxy have today been sent to shareholders. The SJP Annual General Meeting will be held at 11am on Thursday, 14^th May 2015 at The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ.

In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, SJP has today submitted the following documents to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism. The documents will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

• Annual Report and Accounts 2014;
• The Notice of Annual General Meeting to be held on 14 May 2015; and
• Form of Proxy

The 2014 Annual Report and Notice of Annual General Meeting can be downloaded from the corporate website at www1.sjp.co.uk/investor-relations

SJP announced its Annual Results for the year ended 31 December 2014 on 25 February 2015. The following additional regulated information, in relation to the Annual Report and Accounts is provided in full and unedited text as required to be made public in accordance with Rule 6.3.5 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the UK Financial Conduct Authority. This announcement should be read in conjunction with SJP’s Annual Results Announcement issued on 25 February 2015 and is not a substitute for reading the full 2014 Annual Report and Accounts.

The responsibility statement below is set out in the 2014 Annual Report and Accounts.

The following statement is repeated here solely for the purpose of complying with DTR 6.3.5. This statement relates to and is extracted from page 92 of the 2014 Annual Report. Responsibility is for the full 2014 Annual Report and not the information presented in this announcement or the Annual Results Announcement issued on 25 February 2015.

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report, the Directors’ Remuneration Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the Directors have prepared the Group financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union, and the Parent Company financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the Directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and the Company and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
• make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
• state whether IFRSs as adopted by the European Union and applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the Group and Parent Company financial statements respectively; and
• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will continue in business.

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and the Group and enable them to ensure that the financial statements and the Directors’ Remuneration Report comply with the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the Group financial statements, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors have chosen to prepare supplementary information in accordance with the European Embedded Value Principles issued in May 2004 by the Chief Financial Officers Forum, as supplemented by the Additional Guidance on European Embedded Value Disclosures issued in October 2005 (“the EEV Principles”). When compliance with the EEV Principles is stated, those principles require the Directors to prepare supplementary information in accordance with the Embedded Value methodology (EVM) contained in the EEV Principles and to disclose and explain any non-compliance with the EEV Guidance included in the EEV Principles.

In preparing the EEV supplementary information, the Directors have:

• prepared the supplementary information in accordance with the EEV Principles;
• identified and described the business covered by the EVM;
• applied the EVM consistently to the covered business;
• determined assumptions on a realistic basis, having regard to past, current and expected future experience and to any relevant external data, and then applied them consistently; and
• made estimates that are reasonable and consistent.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed in Board of Directors section of the Annual Report confirm that, to the best of their knowledge:

• the Group financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group;
• the European Embedded Value (EEV) supplementary information has been prepared in accordance with the European Embedded Value principles issued in May 2004 by the Chief Financial Officers Forum as supplemented by the Additional Guidance on European Embedded Value Disclosures issued in October 2005 (“the EEV Principles”);
• the Strategic Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Group, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that it faces; and
• the Directors consider that the Annual Report and Accounts, taken as a whole, are fair, balanced and understandable and provide the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Company’s performance, business model and strategy.

For further information please contact:

Kay Fraser

Deputy Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

2 April 2015

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