Foresight Group "well positioned" for further growth as AUM increases

(Alliance News) - Foresight Group Holdings Ltd on Thursday said full-year earnings will be in line with market expectations as it reported record fundraising and higher assets and funds under management.

Foresight is an investment manager, offering institutional and retail investors access to private and listed real assets in the UK, Europe and Australia and to small and medium enterprises in the UK and Ireland.

Assets under management and funds under management increased by 6.1% and 4.2% to GBP14.0 billion and GBP10.0 billion respectively in the financial year ended March from GBP13.2 billion and GBP9.6 billion the year prior.

Record annual fundraising of GBP630 million was achieved in "higher margin" retail vehicles, a 7.3% year-on-year increase from GBP587 million, while gross inflows for the year totalled GBP95 million.

Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners II SCS has EUR595 million commitments approved to date, making good progress towards achieving its EUR1.25 billion target, the firm said. But Foresight Capital Management continued to experience headwinds, the firm added.

Strong realisations in Australia contributed "material" performance fees to the group, whilst decreasing AUM by GBP250 million.

Foresight Group expects financial 2026 core earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation pre-share based payments to be in line with market expectations of GBP65.2 million to GBP70.2 million compared to GBP62.2 million the year prior.

Over financial 2027 and 2028, the firm expects to utilise the remaining GBP40.4 million of the current GBP50 million share buyback programme.

Executive Chair Bernard Fairman said it was another period of "profitable and resilient growth", driven by both "successful fundraising and strong performance across our long duration products."

He said the group is "well positioned for further profitable growth", while noting "our current valuation remains disappointing".

Shares in Foresight Group fell 3.5% to 361.50 pence in London on Thursday morning.

By Jeremy Cutler, Alliance News reporter

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