We’ve compiled a full list of every UK stockbroker which is registered with the London Stock Exchange. These are known as member brokers, and their ranks include some of the best UK stockbrokers.

Other UK financial firms can offer share dealing services to clients, but those firms must rely on the brokers listed below to actually execute transactions on the market. Avoid unnecessary intermediaries by becoming a client of an LSE member broker directly.

Alongside this list of stockbrokers, we’ve added additional information such as the trading names, website addresses and other interesting facts along the way.

The full list of UK stockbrokers for retail investors

Stockbrokers are ranked in alphabetical order. Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement by Financial Expert. List was extracted on 2 May 2021. The full list of member brokers at the London Stock Exchange may have changed since.

A J Bell Securities Limited

Trading name: AJ Bell

Official website: AJ Bell website

Services: Stocks & Shares ISA, Trading Account.

AJ Bell reports almost 350,000 customers and £65.2 billion in assets under management. As one of the largest stockbrokers by assets under management and number of clients, AJ Bell is a leading UK stockbroker.

AJ Bell plc is a publicly traded company, listed on the London Stock Exchange with ticker symbol AJB.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited

Trading name: Arbuthnot Latham

Official website: Arbuthnot Latham & Co website

Services: Private banking & wealth management

Since 1833, Arbuthnot has provided financial services to discerning clients. It won the CityAM Bank of the Year Award in 2019.

Arnold Stansby & Co Limited

Trading name: Arnold Stansby & Co

Official website: Arnold Stansby & Co website

Services: Full service stockbroker, SIPPs, tax-efficient portfolios

Arnold Stansby & Co provides different options depending on the level of control a client wishes to have over their investments. They provide a discretionary service, where your investment portfolio is completely looked after by one of their expert team. They also provide a fully execution-only brokerage service where the client calls all the shots. There’s also a managed advisory service which sits somewhere in between.

Barratt & Cooke

Trading name: Barratt & Cooke

Official website: Barratt & Cooke website

Services: Discretionary (managed) portfolio services for private clients

Based in Norfolk and serving predominantly South-East clients, Barratt & Cooke bring a local touch to stockbroking. Their clients lean on their expertise as no execution-only service is offered – all plans come with a minimum level of advice and guidance.

Blankstone Sington Limited

Trading name: Blankstone Sington

Official website: Blankstone sington website

Services: Bespoke portfolios and stockbroking services with advice

Blankstone are also known for their ‘inheritance tax’ portfolio service, an estate planning tool that can help clients avoid hefty inheritance tax bills through tax-efficient (and often high-risk) investment vehicles.

Brewin Dolphin Limited

Trading name: Brewin Dolphin

Official website: Brewin Dolphin website

Services: Wealth management and direct investment services

With over 30 network offices based around the UK, you’re probably never too far from your nearest Brewin Dolphin contact. Brewin Dolphin Holdings plc is the ultimate parent, and the group is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Capital International Limited

Trading name: Capital International Group

Official website: Capital International website

Services: A platform for financial advisers and wealth managers to manage their client assets. Founded in 1996 by father and son team Peter Long & Anthony Long, it remains a family business to this day, albeit on a much larger scale.

Cardale Asset Management Limited

Trading name: Cardale Asset Management

Official website: Cardale Asset Management website

Services: Independent stockbroker based in Harrogate. Cardale makes the rare commitment to never outsource its back-office function, meaning that when you entrust the company to execute a transaction on your behalf, you know it’s being processed entirely in-house.

Cave & Sons Limited

Trading name: Cave & Sons

Official website: Cave & Sons website

Services: Financial planning & stockbroking services

Cave & Sons are as much an independent financial advice business as they are a stockbroker. This multi-disciplinary team is based in Northampton focuses on offering a personal service to clients.

Charles Stanley & Company Limited

Trading name: Charles Stanley Direct

Official website: Charles Stanley Direct website

Services: Execution-only stockbroking & fund management

Charles Stanley was one of the early-era ‘discount brokers’ which brought investing into the low-cost era. Charles Stanley also offers several multi-asset funds which allow investors to build an investment portfolio with few transactions.

Credo Capital Limited

Trading name: Credo Capital

Official website: Credo Capital website

Services: Wealth management, fund management and intermediary services

Credo engages directly with wealth management clients, as well as offering intermediary services to other financial advisers. Credo also offer several funds include the Global Equity Fund, Dynamic Fund and Growth Fund.

Dowgate Capital Limited

Trading name: Dowgate Capital

Official website: Dowgate Capital website

Services: Corporate broking, advisory & wealth management

Dowgate serves private and corporate clients. Corporate broking is where a broker helps businesses access capital through the financial markets, such as through the listing of their shares on a stock exchange. Dowgate helps to foster an entrepreneurial spirit by encouraging staff to take an equity stake in the parent company 3B Capital.

EFG Private Bank Limited

Trading name: EFG Private Bank

Official website: EFG Private Bank website

Services: Banking and treasury, Credit, Investments, Fiduciary services & Client Custody Regulations

EFG Private Bank offers ebanking and investment services to retail investors, alongside a fully-fledged private banking suite of services. If you have not heard of EFG before, they are an international Swiss banking group that has 40 locations and is listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Equiniti Financial Services Limited

Trading name: Equiniti

Official website: Equiniti website

Services: Provision of transaction and custodial support to other financial services businesses.

Equiniti report that they hold 70 million shareholder records, send £90 billion in payments in each year, look after 1.1 million share plan investors and interact with 27 million shareholders and pensioners.

Farley & Thompson LLP

Trading name: Farley & Thompson

Official website: Farley & Thompson website

Services: Dealing & Advisory, Nominee, Discretionary Management, Stocks & Shares ISAs and more

Here’s an insight into what you would receive each period as a discretionary service client:

• A valuation of the portfolio
• A summary of performance
• A comparison of the return measured against the appropriate WMA index
• A market and stock commentary
• Transaction, cash and corporate action statements
• Tax year end schedules

FinecoBank S.p.A.

Trading name: Fineco UK

Official website: FinecoBank website

Services: Retail banking, Stocks & Shares ISAs, UK investing app

Fineco is an Italian bank that has recently expanded operations in the UK. In Italy, Fineco reports having over 1.3 million clients.

It charges a low fixed commission of £2.95 for share dealing, which beats many UK stockbrokers on price.

First Equity Limited

Trading name: First Equity

Official website: First Equity website

Services: First Equity offers services to both institutional and private clients, as well as supporting public and private companies requiring corporate finance and advisory services.

Fiske plc

Trading name: Fiske plc

Official website: Fiske website

Services: Discretionary: where the portfolio is managed by Fiske’s team of investment managers. Managed Advisory: where investment advisors provide clients with advice in relation to their portfolios. Execution Only: where clients wish to deal but do not receive investment advice.

Fiske was founded in 1973 by Clive Fiske Harrison. It features an online portal for clients to log in and view insights about their investments without having to wait for periodic statements.

Freetrade Limited

Trading name: Freetrade

Official website: Freetrade website

Services: Sharedealing services and ISA account via an modern investing app.

Freetrade, as the name suggests, is disrupting the UK stockbroking market by offering share dealing services with zero commission charged on each trade. It reports having over 500,000 customers, making it one of the top 20 UK stockbrokers by number of customers.

GHC Capital Markets Limited

Trading name: GHC Capital Markets

Official website: GHC Capital Markets website

Services: Financial Planning for individuals & corporates

GHC group offers a comprehensive list of financial planning services, including IHT planning and trusts.

Halifax Share Dealing Limited

Trading name: Halifax Share Dealing

Official website: Halifax Share Dealing website

Services: Halifax is a bank offering current accounts, credit cards, mortgages alongside savings & investment products. It was originally founded in 1853, Halifax was one of the many building and friendly societies which decided to ‘de-mutualise’ and evolve into a bank owned by shareholders, which it did in 1997.

Their share dealing offer includes execution-only trading in shares, funds and bonds.

Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Limited

Trading name: Hargreaves Lansdown

Official website: Hargreaves Lansdown website

Services: Retail stockbroker & fund supermarket

Hargreaves Lansdown is the UKs largest stockbroker, measured by both assets under management and number of clients. It’s also a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of companies.

Hedley & Company Stockbrokers Limited

Trading name: Hedley & Co

Official website: Hedley & Co website

Services: Stockbroking services for individuals, charities, trusts & estates, and pension schemes & corporates.

Founded in 1992, Hedley & Co are a leading Independent Stockbroker and Wealth Manager in the North West of England.

Hubwise Securities Limited

Trading name: Hubwise

Official website: Hubwise Securities website

Services: Investment platform, execution solutions & custody services.

Hubwise Securities is a regulated technology business that operates the Hubwise investment platform, a multi-wrapper, multi-currency transaction processing engine.

iDealing.com Limited

Trading name: iDealing UK

Official website: iDealing website

Services: Equity, derivative and CFD brokerage

iDealing provides direct access to the listed securities of several major exchanges as well as the OTC markets (RSP Gateway). iDealing also provides a range of unlisted securities, including CFDs, and spread betting. It offers these as an in-house service. This differentiates iDealing from the hundreds of ‘CFD providers’ which act as little more than a funnel to other intermediaries who genuinely provide the CFD functionality.

Interactive Brokers (UK) Limited

Trading name: Interactive Brokers

Official website: Interactive Brokers website

Services: Margin trading, share-dealing, ETF trading and others

With 2,000 employees and touting $9 billion in equity capital, there’s no question that Interactive Brokers have achieved scale in their 43 years of trading. An international group, Interactive Brokers provide simple and complex securities to retail investors.

Interactive Investor Services Limited

Trading name: interactive investor

Official website: Interactive Investor Services website

Services: Flat-fee share trading and fund supermarket

The second-largest stockbroker in the UK by assets under management, Interactive Investor is a Manchester-based group that has grown through a series of acquisitions over the last ten years, including the recent acquisition of EQi.

Investec Wealth & Investment (Channel Islands) Limited & Investec Wealth & Investment Limited

Trading name: Investec

Official website: Investec website

Services: Asset manager & private bank

Investec is a FTSE 250 listed business which recently span out its asset management operation as Ninety One plc. The remaining Investec brand covers the wealth management & private client business.

J.M. Finn & Co.Ltd

Trading name: JM Finn

Official website: JM Finn website

Services: Discretionary portfolio management, Advisory Services, Wealth planning, Tax efficient investing, Inheritance tax portfolio service

On its website, JM Finn claims that it has £9.3bn of funds under management and administration on behalf of over 18,500 client accounts of which many are for families who have had investments overseen by JM Finn for several generations.

James Brearley & Sons Limited

Trading name: James Brearley

Official website: James Brearley website

Services: Investment management, best Stocks & Shares ISAs, Nominee service

James Brearley has been providing investment management and share dealing services for over 100 years.

James Sharp & Co LLP

Trading name: James Sharp & Co

Official website: James Sharp & Co website

Services: Share dealing, SIPPs and ISAs, Nominee accounts

The history of James Sharp & Co began in Bury in 1885, and has been run as a tight-knit team ever since. From James Sharp ’til 2021, there have only been a total of 9 named partners at James Sharp & Co.

Jarvis Investment Management Limited

Trading name: Jarvis Investment Management, shareDeal active

Official website: Jarvis website

Services: Stockbroking

Jarvis offer stockbroking services to their own clients, plus the clients of other financial institutions. It provided services to clients of Yorkshire Building Society, but recently acquired that book of business from YBS which is effective from 1 May 2021.

Jarvis also trades under a direct investing model on shareDeal active.

Killik & Co LLP

Trading name: Killik & Co

Official website: Killik & Co website

Services: Savings & investments, savings & investing app

Killik & Co is an award-winning investment and wealth management company. In 2019 it was named Wealth Manager of the Year in the Investors Chronicle / Financial Times Investment & Wealth Management Awards.

Oberon Investments Limited

Trading name: Oberon Investments

Official website: Oberon website

Services: Investment management, Corporate advisory & broking

The Investment Management division incorporates two teams, Oberon Investments and Hanson Investment Management.

Hanson Investment Management is a company that grew out of a family office for the Janson family. Clients can leverage the same level of attention and service commitment as the founding family receives.

Pilling & Co Stockbrokers Ltd

Trading name: Pilling & Co

Official website: Pilling & Co website

Services: Stockbroking & portfolio management services

Pilling & Co have offered stockbroking services for over a century. The business was founded by Henry Pilling, who launched the firm in 1893.

The Pilling Ideal Portfolios (PIPs) were introduced in 2001 to offer clients a bespoke portfolio made up of unit trust, OEICs and investment trusts at a lower rate than their fully managed services.

Quilter Cheviot Ltd

Trading name: Quilter Cheviot

Official website: Quilter Cheviot website

Services: Portfolio service, ethical & sustainable investments, offshore investments

The Quilter Cheviot Climate Assets Fund has recently celebrated its 10th birthday. It invests mainly in equities but also includes an allocation of alternative assets such as renewable energy infrastructure.

Ramsey Crookall & Co Limited

Trading name: Ramsey Crookall & Co

Official website: Ramsey Crookall & Co website

Services: Investment management, stockbroking

Ramsey Crookall offers, among other services, a portfolio model service called Shearwater. It’s a Discretionary Fund Management (DFM) service designed by Ramsey Crookall’s investment committee to meet a broader range of investment objectives and risk tolerances. Leave the portfolio design to Ramsey, while you drip feed as little or much as you like into the platform each month.

Ravenscroft (CI) Limited

Trading name: Ravenscroft

Official website: Ravenscroft website

Services: Discretionary or partially advised stockbroking for UK clients

The tagline of Ravenscroft is ‘Investments for Everyone’. With £7.75bn assets under management, they’ve not quite covered everyone but they seem to be working their way there!

Ravenscroft also offer two bespoke funds:

• IFSL Ravenscroft Balanced Fund is a fund-of-funds
• IFSL Ravenscroft Global Blue Chip is a focused portfolio of direct stocks

Raymond James Financial International Limited & Raymond James Investment Services Limited

Trading name: Raymond James

Official website: Raymond James website

Services: Wealth management solutions for wealth managers and their clients

With £13.6bn of assets under management, it’s easy to forget that Raymond James only came to the UK in 2001. Much of this extraordinary growth has come in the last decade. Part of the US firm Raymond James Financial, Inc

Rowan Dartington & Co Limited

Trading name: Rowan Dartington

Official website: Rowan Dartington website

Services: Discretionary managed services & advisory dealing

Providing advice services to private clients and those of other wealth management firms, such as St. James’s Place.

Russell Wood Limited

Trading name: Limited details available.

Official website: Limited details available.

Seven Investment Management LLP

Trading name: 7IM

Official website: Seven Investment Management website

Services: Investment services for the clients of financial advisers

From their offices in London, Edinburgh and Jersey, more than 400 7IM employees manage over £17 billion for a range of clients.

Smith & Williamson Investment Services Limited

Trading name: Smith & Williamson

Official website: Smith & Williamson website

Services: Private wealth, taxation, financial planning

Smith & Williamson are one of the UK’s ten largest accountancy firms. As such, they provide a suite of services from taxation, family wealth, succession planning.

Smith & Williamson have recently completed a merger with Tilney (See below) and the combined group is known as Tilney Smith & Williamson.

The Share Centre Limited

Trading name: The Share Centre

Official website: The Share Centre website

Services:

Please note that The Share Centre Ltd was acquired by Interactive Investor in 2020, and is no longer an independent company, although it continues to trade under its distinctive brand.

Thomas Grant & Company Ltd

Trading name: Thomas Grant & Company

Official website: Thomas Grant & Company website

Services: Share dealing & ISAs

Thomas Grant also offer derivatives to professional investors only.

Tilney Investment Management

Trading name: Bestinvest, Tilney Investment Management

Official website: Bestinvest website

Services: Retail investor brokerage platform including ISAs

Tilney merged with Smith & Williamson in 2020.

Walker Crips Investment Management Limited

Trading name: Walker Crips

Official website: Walker Crips website

Services: Investments, pensions, structured investments

Walker Crisp offers several structured products, which it makes available through intermediaries. Their current plans list HSBC as the counterparty.

Full list of LSE Member Brokers

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Other investment platforms such as crowdfunding platforms (e.g. Funderbeam) are not included in the scope of this article.