Company history

With a history of 200 years, Schroders plc is amongst the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Our success is due to an ability to create value for clients and shareholders by identifying opportunities most suited to our style of working during times of change in terms of client needs and financial markets. Our independence has allowed us to take a distinctive team based and entrepreneurial approach to business strategy.

1804 - Johann Heinrich Schröder became a partner in his brother's London based firm.

1818 - J. Henry Schröder & Co. was established.

1850 - Schröder Stiftung, a charitable trust, was launched.

1850s-1860s - J. Henry Schröder & Co. developed.

1870 - Schroders introduced the Japanese Government's first foreign loan to the London Market.

1895 - (Rudolph) Bruno Schröder, became a partner.

1910 - Bruno Schroder inherited the London firm.

1923 - J. Henry Schröder Banking Corporation, known as Schrobanco, was launched on Wall Street.

1926 - J. Henry Schröder & Co. developed the investment management activities of the firm and an investment department was created.

1940 - Helmut Schroder became the firm's senior partner. He also became Chairman of Schrobanco which continued to develop as an independently managed US banking firm.

1957 - The name of J. Henry Schröder & Co. was anglicised and the partnership was converted into a private company.

1959 - Schroders became a quoted public company and was listed on the London Stock Exchange. Helmut Schroder was Chairman until 1965.

1960s-1970s - Schroders developed a presence in each of the major financial markets of the world. Subsidiary and Associated companies were established to undertake investment banking activities in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and other Continental European countries.

1962- Schroders merged with Helbert, Wagg & Co., a stock broking firm founded in 1823, which specialised in issues for domestic clients and developed an important investment advisory side to its business.

1986 - Schroders acquired a 50% interest in Wertheim & Co. Inc., a leading New York investment bank and securities firm and Schrobanco was sold to the Industrial Bank of Japan.

1994 - Schroders acquired the remaining 50% of Wertheim which it later renamed Schroder & Co. Inc.

2000 - Schroders sold its investment banking business to Salomon Smith Barney. Asset management and related businesses now comprise the whole of Schroders plc's business.

Schroders continues to be well established in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas, as a leading international company.

2001 - Schroders acquired Beaumont, an absolute return asset management business focusing on high net worth individuals, family offices and professional investors.

Schroders is listed within the FSTE4Good, DJSI World and DJSI STOXX indexes.

2004 - Schroders celebrated its 200^th anniversary.

Schroders celebrated its 200^th anniversary and raises over £500,000 for MacMillan Cancer Relief in the UK and over £800,000 for cancer and children's charities globally.

2005 - A volunteering policy is introduced to employees in the UK. Schroders undertakes its first Community Challenge in Sri Lanka with Habitat for Humanity.

2006 - Schroders completes the acquisition of NewFinance Capital

2007 - Schroders acquires Aareal Asset Management GmbH. Schroders expands its presence in India and the Middle East with the opening of offices in the Mumbai and Dubai.

Launches the Schroders ISF Global Climate Change Equity Fund.

Schroders has best profits ever recorded with £139.1 billion funds under management

2008 - Schroders acquires Singapore-based private client advisory unit of Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Schroders' volunteering policy is opened up to global offices, with 40 employees from all over the world heading to China to build houses with Habitat for Humanity and taking part in Schroders' fourth Community Challenge.

Becomes a member of Green 500 in the UK.