Sanlam UK's Polin: What the geopolitical 'palette of tension' will mean for business

"Sanlam UK does not want to have the 'biggest and best' wealth business in the UK. That is not the aim," the group's CEO Jonathan Polin explains at their office in Monument Street, commenting on a series of acquisitions made by the firm this year, which included buying Thesis Asset Management in April. The purchase of Thesis, which has several offices around the UK, brought an extra £1.2bn of assets under management to the table for Sanlam UK, which now manages £4.2bn of private client discretionary assets alone. Globally, Sanlam manages more than £42bn for 15,000 customers - a far cr...