St. James's Place Plc ("SJP")

Annual Report and Notice of AGM

SJP announces that its 2021 Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting have today been sent to shareholders. 

The SJP Annual General Meeting ("AGM") will be held at 11:00am on Thursday, 19 May 2022 at The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ.

Details regarding the format of the AGM can be found at www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/shareholder-meetings.

In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, SJP has submitted the following documents to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism.  The documents are available for inspection at

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

·    2021 Annual Report and Accounts; and

·    The Notice of Annual General Meeting to be held on 19 May 2022.

The 2021 Annual Report and Accounts can be downloaded from the corporate website at https://www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/reports-presentation-and-webcasts/2022 and the Notice of AGM at www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/shareholder-meetings.

Interest in Shares

The disclosures relating to the holdings of Directors and major shareholders as set out on pages 152 and 165 of the 2021 Annual Report and Accounts are stated as at 23 February 2022.  There have been no changes in the holdings of the major shareholders since that date. Changes in the holdings of Directors since 23 February 2022 were set out in the following announcements made to the stock exchange by the Company:

·    Director/PDMR Shareholding - released 12 January 2022, 7 March 2022, 28 March 2022, and 31 March 2022.

* Ian Gascoigne ceased to be a Director of the Company as at 31 March 2022.

Group Solvency and Financial Condition Report

SJP has also published its Group Solvency and Financial Condition Report for the year ended 31 December 2021 ("SFCR").  In accordance with the requirements of the Solvency II Regulations, the SFCR can be downloaded from the corporate website at https://www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/reports-presentation-and-webcasts/2022.

DTR 6.3.5

This announcement should be read in conjunction with SJP's annual results announcement issued on 24 February 2022 (the "Results Announcement").  This announcement is not a substitute for reading the full 2021 Annual Report and Accounts.

The Results Announcement and the responsibility statement below have been communicated in unedited full text as required under Rule 6.3.5 of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules sourcebook of the UK Financial Conduct Authority. 

The responsibility statement below is extracted from page 167 of the 2021 Annual Report and Accounts. It relates to the full 2021 Annual Report and Accounts, not to the information presented in this announcement or the Results Announcement, and is repeated here solely for the purpose of complying with DTR 6.3.5:

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and Accounts 2021 and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulation. Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have prepared the group financial statements in accordance with UK-adopted international accounting standards and the company financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101 'Reduced Disclosure Framework', and applicable law).

Under company law, Directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group and company and of the profit or loss of the group for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the Directors are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• state whether applicable UK adopted international accounting standards have been followed for the group financial statements and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101 have been followed for the company financial statements, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

• make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the group and company will continue in business.

The Directors are responsible for safeguarding the assets of the group and company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors are also responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the group's and company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the group and company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements and the Directors' Remuneration Report comply with the Companies Act 2006. The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Directors' confirmations

The Directors consider that the Annual Report and Accounts 2021 and accounts, taken as a whole, is fair, balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary for shareholders to assess the group's and company's position and performance, business model and strategy.

Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed in the Board of Directors on pages 100 and 101 confirm

that, to the best of their knowledge:

• the group financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with UK-adopted international accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the group;

• the company financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities and financial position of the company; and

• the Strategic Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the group and company, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that it faces.

In the case of each Director in office at the date the Directors' report is approved:

• so far as the Director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the group's and company's auditors are unaware; and

• they have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as a Director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the group's and company's auditors are aware of that information

For further information please contact:

Jonathan Dale

Company Secretary

St. James's Place plc (LEI: 213800M993ICXOMBCP87)

Tel: +44 (0)1285 717237

11 April 2022

Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on this announcement (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.