deVere Group is the world’s leading financial advice firm for expats and here are 10 facts about the company which show just how fast the business has grown.
Led by chief executive Nigel Green, the firm has rocketed from a standing start to a global giant.
Here are some of the numbers that show how fast the firm has grown:
- 2002 – The year Nigel Green started deVere Group as a specialist adviser serving British expats
- 80,000 customers – One of the key numbers that shows how many expats turn to deVere Group for advice about pensions, investments, savings and protection
- 51 offices – How many offices the company has worldwide, stretching from the Americas to the Asia Pacific
- 100 offices – Green’s growth target for deVere Group to set up bases for 150 more financial advisers
- $10 billion invested – The amount of money deVere Group’s expat customers have invested through the company
- 1,000 plus staff – Although financial advisers account for around half of the global workforce, the company also has hundreds of administrators dealing with running the business day-to-day while specialist teams handle regulatory issues, tax and investment advice
- 35-45 years old – The age of a typical deVere Group customer, who is also likely to be a still working – although retired expats do invest with the company, they are a minority of the client book.
Most are British, although Germans, French, Spanish and Swedish customers are among the growing numbers of other nationalities seeking expat financial advice
- £150,000 – The average customer’s annual income. These high net worth expats often have large sums of cash earmarked for savings and investments as well
- 7 – The number of international awards deVere Group or Nigel Green won in 2015 for excellence in advice and customer service
- 5000 funds from 200 companies – The huge number of investment opportunities available 24/7 for expats on deVere Group’s online fund platform
“Increasing global mobilisation of the workplace that has accelerated in recent years has helped our business model thrive,” said Green.
“We realised these expats needed financial advice and the way the business has grown supports that view. So few companies were offering the service that when we stepped in, expats realised they had somewhere to look to for help with their financial planning.”
