Liontrust was established in 1994 and launched in 1995, and had an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in 1999 as Liontrust Asset Management PLC.^[5] Liontrust became a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap in 2014^[6] and entered the FTSE 250 in 2020.^[7] Adrian Collins became non-executive chair in early 2009.^[8] John Ions became chief executive in May 2010^[9] and remains as Chief Executive.^[10] Vinay Abrol is the CFO/COO while Alastair Barbour took over from Adrian Collins as non-executive Chair in 2019.^[11] The Economic Advantage team was formed in 1997,^[12] the Cashflow Solution team in 2006^[13] and the Global Fixed Income team in 2018.^[14]

Liontrust acquired North Investment Partners Multi Asset team and portfolios in 2013.^[15] In 2017 Liontrust completed their £30 million acquisition of Alliance Trust Investments, creating the Sustainable Investment team.^[16][17] The £40 million acquisition of Neptune Investment Management completed in 2019,^[18] bringing UK, global and emerging markets equity funds to Liontrust.^[19][20] In 2020, Liontrust bought Architas Advisory Services and Architas Multi-Manager from Axa in a deal worth £75 million, merging the Architas UK Fund Management team with the multi asset investment team at Liontrust and bringing multi-asset funds to Liontrust.^[21] After announcing a deal in December 2021,^[22] Liontrust completed the £120 million takeover of Majedie Asset Management in April 2022. Majedie’s fund managers became the Global Fundamental team at Liontrust.^[23]

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