Ravenscroft

Ravenscroft

Ravenscroft opened in 2005 in St Peter Port, Guernsey, set up by former broker Jon Ravenscroft and anchored by billionaire Stephen Lansdown's capital. Lansdown, who co-founded FTSE 100 firm Hargreaves Lansdown, remains the controlling shareholder, giving the firm a permanent-capital backbone that distinguishes it from bank-owned Channel Islands competitors. The group operates from Guernsey and Jersey, serving individuals, families, charities, intermediaries, and corporations under a structure that includes the arm formerly known as Advisa for financial planning. The shop runs four core investment lines: execution-only dealing, advisory stockbroking, discretionary portfolio management, and cash-management products delivering higher-yield deposit alternatives. Its most distinctive capability is BullionRock, an in-house precious-metals dealer offering physical gold, silver, and storage—a service few European wealth managers provide directly. On the private-markets side, Ravenscroft manages the Guernsey Investment Fund, which counts the States of Guernsey as a cornerstone investor and targets early-stage and venture opportunities. Direct balance-sheet holdings include a portfolio of Channel Islands commercial real estate: Glategny Court, Regency Court, Royal Chambers & The Rotunda, Carey House, Oak House, and 40 Esplanade in St Helier. It also holds stakes in ASG Group and Jacksons Group, local operating businesses. The firm was absorbed into Titan Wealth, a consolidator that reports £45bn in assets under management and more than 1,450 staff. Titan Wealth acquired Ravenscroft and rebranded the local operation as Titan Wealth CI, folding in the legacy Jersey-based financial-planning unit in 2023. The Channel Islands hub—still run by the founding team—retains its own regulatory perimeter, offices at 20 New Street (Guernsey) and Liberation Square (Jersey), and a board chaired by Dominic Jones, who is also CEO of JPRestaurants. Key executives hold Fellowship status with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. In May 2026, Titan Wealth promoted two Channel Islands staff into group roles, signalling integration is maturing. The structural difference is the double anchor: Lansdown's patient, permanent shareholding combined with the consolidator's balance sheet. Unlike most acquired boutiques that lose their local identity, Ravenscroft—now Titan Wealth CI—still operates its own real-estate book, bullion dealership, and state-backed venture fund, making it a vertically integrated investment house on a small-island perimeter.