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RNS Number : 8491H  Foresight Group Holdings Limited  11 June 2026

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11 June 2026

 

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Foresight Group agrees sale of public markets division to Guinness Global
Investors

 

Foresight Group Holdings Limited ("Foresight", the "Group") is a leading
investment manager offering institutional and retail investors a diverse range
of private and listed investment solutions in real assets located in the UK,
Europe and Australia, and growth capital for SME businesses across the UK and
Ireland.

 

The Group announces that it has entered into an agreement to sell its public
markets investment division, Foresight Capital Management ("FCM"), to Guinness
Global Investors ("the Disposal"). The Disposal involves the transfer of all
of FCM's funds, totalling approximately £1.0 billion in Assets under
Management (7% of Group AUM as of 31 March 2026) and 16 employees.

 

The Disposal helps streamline Foresight's operating model, enabling it to
focus on its core Real Assets and Private Equity businesses. FCM will be held
within discontinued operations as part of the Group's full year results and,
taking this Disposal into account, the Group is anticipated to meet its FY26
core EBITDA pre-SBP consensus estimates.

 

Completion is expected during the third quarter of 2026.

 

Bernard Fairman, Executive Chairman of Foresight Group Holdings Limited,
commented:

 

"When we launched Foresight Capital Management ("FCM") as our public markets
investment division in 2017, we saw an opportunity to broaden our product set
by applying Foresight's deep real assets knowledge to public markets. The
early success of the FCM division - growing AUM from initiation in 2017 to
£1.6 billion in 2022 - reflected the size of the market opportunity at that
time and the quality of our team and products. Today, however, the market
opportunity has changed with ongoing challenges in this sector creating a need
to operate at ever increasing scale, often through consolidation, in order to
deliver attractive returns.

 

"It is a consequence of these factors and a desire to rationalise our
business, that has led to this disposal. Going forward, Foresight will focus
on private markets, deploying long duration capital across our core Real
Assets and Private Equity divisions, leveraging our competitive advantages and
a history of strong investment performance."

 

 Foresight Group Investors                            H-Advisors
 Liz Scorer / Ben McGrory                             Sam Cartwright / Genevieve Ryan
 +44 (0) 7966 966956 / +44 (0) 7443 821577            +44 (0) 782 725 4561
 ir@foresightgroup.eu (mailto:ir@foresightgroup.eu)   Foresight@h-advisors.global (mailto:Foresight@h-advisors.global)

 

 

About Foresight Group Holdings Limited

Founded in 1984, Foresight is a leading investment manager in real assets and
capital for growth, operating across the UK, Europe and Australia.

With decades of experience, Foresight offers investors access to attractive
investment opportunities at the forefront of change. Foresight actively builds
and grows investment solutions to support the energy transition, decarbonise
industry, enhance nature recovery and realise the economic potential of
ambitious companies.

A constituent of the FTSE 250 index, Foresight's diversified investment
strategies combine financial and operational skillsets to maximise asset value
and provide attractive returns to its investors. Its wide range of private and
public funds is complemented with a variety of investment solutions designed
for the retail market.

Visit https://foresight.group (https://www.foresight.group/) for more
information.

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Disclaimer - Forward-looking statements

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"Company"), may contain forward-looking statements about the Company. Such
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known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which
are beyond the Company's control and are based on the Company's beliefs and
expectations about future events as of the date the statements are made. If
the assumptions on which the Company bases its forward-looking statements
change, actual results may differ from those expressed in such statements.
There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements, including those set out under "Principal Risks" in the Company's
annual report for the financial year ended 31 March 2025. The annual report
can be found on the Company's website (https://www.foresightgroup.eu/).
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Except as
required by applicable law and regulation, the Company undertakes no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Nothing in this
announcement should be construed as a profit forecast.

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