History

The origins of Collins Stewart Hawkpoint Group (the “Group”) lie in the formation, in May 1991, of a stockbroking partnership with Singer & Friedlander Securities. In 1996, Singer & Friedlander changed its name to Collins Stewart Limited and subsequently acquired Greig Middleton’s Channel Islands and Isle of Man operations.

In 1999 Collins Stewart commenced operations in the US through the establishment of Collins Stewart Inc., a registered broker dealer in New York. Collins Stewart also entered the United Kingdom investment trust sector in that year.

The management team of Collins Stewart bought out the Company from Singer & Friedlander in May 2000 and it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in October 2000 as Collins Stewart Tullett plc.

As part of its strategy of building an asset management business, Collins Stewart acquired the private client division of NatWest Stockbrokers Limited in May 2001 and, in October 2005, also acquired the Jersey and Isle of Man based Insinger de Beaufort.

In December 2006, a demerger was carried out to separate Collins Stewart’s stockbroking activities from Tullet, the inter-broker dealer. Two entirely separate publicly traded companies were formed, Collins Stewart plc and Tullet Prebon plc. At the same time, Collins Stewart plc completed its acquisition of the corporate finance advisory firm Hawkpoint Partners Limited. In July 2007 Collins Stewart Inc. acquired C. E. Unterberg Towbin, a capital markets, securities and advisory company. Collins Stewart Inc. was subsequently renamed as Collins Stewart LLC.

During 2010 the Group made two acquisitions in the investment management sector, adding Anderson Charnley and Corazon Capital to the growing business of Collins Stewart Wealth Management.

In May 2011, reflecting the growing number of opportunities for teams from Hawkpoint and Collins Stewart to work together for the benefit of clients, our shareholders approved the change of name of Collins Stewart plc to “Collins Stewart Hawkpoint plc”.

All the individual businesses of the Group continue to trade under their existing names but the Group is now known as Collins Stewart Hawkpoint plc and trades under the London Stock Exchange EPIC/TIDM of “CSHP”.