UAP Group is pleased to introduce Riversmeet Advisory, a newly launched executive search and leadership advisory firm focused exclusively on asset management, pensions, and investment‑led financial services.
Riversmeet has been established to meet growing demand from organisations seeking more than a traditional executive search provider. Its approach reflects the principles that underpin UAP Group’s portfolio: deep sector understanding, high professional standards, and long‑term partnership over transactional service.
A Different Model for a Changing Sector
Riversmeet Advisory was founded in response to increasing frustration with traditional search models that have been slow to evolve. Despite advances in data, operating models, and professional services delivery, many firms continue to rely on brand and database rather than insight, judgement, and genuine advisory value.
Riversmeet is built on a clear premise: clients deserve an adviser, not a vendor executing a brief. The firm works with a deliberately selective client base—organisations that value challenge, clarity, and informed market perspective throughout the leadership hiring process.
From framing the role properly to questioning assumptions around capability and structure, Riversmeet remains closely engaged through appointment and beyond.
“The firms supporting asset management and pensions have relied too long on brand and database to justify their fees. Clients know it — and they’re looking for something better. Riversmeet was built to be that something better.”
Amanda Floyd, Managing Director, Riversmeet Advisory
Strength Through UAP Group
Riversmeet sits within UAP Group, a dynamic holding company with a diversified portfolio across financial services, pensions, and technology. The group’s businesses include Alltrust Services Limited, one of the UK’s leading SIPP providers with over £2.9 billion in assets under administration and more than 11,000 members, and Enhance Group Limited, a Jersey‑based investment monitoring and advisory business serving trustees, family offices, and private clients, in which UAP Group holds a significant interest.
This group context provides Riversmeet with a meaningful advantage. While many executive search firms observe the asset management and pensions market from the outside, Riversmeet operates from within it.
Through UAP Group’s day‑to‑day involvement in pension administration, investment advisory, and financial technology, Riversmeet benefits from a live, first‑hand understanding of the challenges firms face, the leadership capabilities required to address them, and the individuals making a real impact across the sector.
That embedded insight translates directly into better outcomes for clients: deeper understanding, more candid market intelligence, and access to networks built through operating in the sector—not merely recruiting for it.
“Riversmeet is a natural extension of what UAP Group stands for—combining specialist expertise with genuine sector immersion to deliver real value for clients. Adding executive search and leadership advisory strengthens the overall proposition across the group.”
Rob Shipman, Managing Director, UAP Group
Complementary Capability, Shared Values
Riversmeet represents an extension of UAP Group’s commitment to specialist expertise and long‑term value creation. Distinct in focus yet aligned in values, Riversmeet combines the judgement and personal service of a specialist advisory firm with the infrastructure, regulatory experience, and sector connectivity of an established financial services group.
Together, Riversmeet and UAP Group deliver something genuinely differentiated to the market: independent in feel, better supported in practice.
