[17] In 2014 the company bought Henley Group, a financial adviser with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, and renamed it St. James's Place Asia.

[18][19] It bought Rowan Dartington, a discretionary fund manager, for £34.2m in 2015,[20] and Technical Connection, a financial consultancy, in 2016.

[24][25] In July 2019, the Financial Ombudsman Service raised "serious concerns", after a client had been persuaded to transfer more than £60,000 to the company, over claims that St. James's Place had "doctored" documents with "forged" signatures to hide the advice allegedly given by the company to the client.

[26] In November 2019 fourteen former footballers sued St James's Place for £15m, alleging that they had received poor advice concerning tax avoidance regarding film and overseas property investment schemes.

[28] Paul Manduca replaced Iain Cornish as chairman of the firm after the annual general meeting in May 2021.

[29] In September 2023, the company announced that Andrew Croft would be stepping down as CEO after five years in the role.