Sentences and paragraphs of RJF's Risk Factors and MD&A, 10-K 2025-11-25 against 10-K 2024-11-26.
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In addition, proxy advisory firms and certain institutional investors who manage investments in public companies may integrate environmental, social, and governance factors into their investment analysis. The consideration of environmental and social matters in making investment and voting decisions is relatively new. Accordingly, the frameworks and methods for assessing policies related to such matters are not fully developed, vary considerably among the investment community, and will likely continue to evolve over time. Moreover, the subjective nature of methods used by various stakeholders to assess a company with respect to environmental, social, and governance criteria could result in erroneous perceptions or a misrepresentation of our actual policies and practices in these areas. Organizations that provide ratings information to investors on such matters may
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also assign unfavorable ratings to RJF. Public companies continue to face pressure from stakeholders to consider environmental, social, and governance issues in corporate actions, such as the election of directors and approval of executive compensation. Certain of our clients might also require that we implement additional procedures or standards in these areas in order to continue to do business with them. If we fail to comply with specific investor or client expectations and standards, or to provide the disclosure relating to these issues that any third parties may believe is necessary or appropriate (regardless of whether there is a legal requirement to do so), our reputation, business, financial condition, and/or results of operations could be negatively impacted.
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Our Board of Directors has the authority to issue debt securities as well as an aggregate of up to 10 million shares of preferred stock on the terms it determines appropriate without shareholder approval. Outstanding shares of our 6.375% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Series B Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.10 per share are senior to our common stock. Any debt or shares of preferred stock that we may issue in the future will also be senior to our common stock. Because our decision to issue debt or equity securities or incur other borrowings in the future will depend on market conditions and other factors beyond our control, the amount, timing, nature or success of our future capital raising efforts is uncertain. Thus, holders of our common stock bear the risk that our future issuances of debt or equity securities or our incurrence of other borrowings may negatively affect the market price of our common stock.
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The depositary shares representing our preferred stock are thinly traded and have limited voting rights.
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The depositary shares representing interests in our preferred stock are listed on the NYSE, but an active, liquid trading market for such securities may not be sustained, and holders of our depositary shares may not be able to sell their shares at the volume, prices, or times desired. In addition, holders of our preferred stock (and, accordingly, holders of the depositary shares representing such stock), will have no voting rights with respect to matters that generally require the approval of our voting common shareholders. Holders of preferred stock have voting rights that are generally limited to: (i) authorizing, creating or issuing any capital stock ranking senior to such preferred stock, and (ii) amending, altering or repealing any provision of our Articles of Incorporation so as to adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of such series of preferred stock.
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Year ended September 30, Other selected financial highlights 2024 2023 2022 Return on common equity 18.9% 17.7% 17.0% Adjusted return on common equity (1) 19.6% 18.4% 18.2% Return on tangible common equity (1) 22.6% 21.7% 19.8% Adjusted return on tangible common equity (1) 23.3% 22.5% 21.1% Compensation ratio 64.1% 62.8% 66.6% Adjusted compensation ratio (1) 63.7% 62.1% 66.1% Effective income tax rate 21.8% 23.7% 25.4%
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As of September 30, 2024, tier 1 leverage ratio was 12.8% and total capital ratio was 24.1%, both well above regulatory capital requirements. We also continued to have substantial liquidity with $2.16 billion(1) of cash at the parent as of September 30, 2024. We believe our capital and funding position provide us the opportunity to manage our balance sheet prudently and to continue to be opportunistic and invest in growth. During the year ended September 30, 2024, we repurchased 7.7 million shares of our common stock under the Board of Directors’ common stock repurchase authorization for $900 million at an average price of $117 per share. After the effect of those repurchases, $644 million remained under the Board’s authorization. In total, we returned $1.3 billion of capital to shareholders through the combination of share repurchases and dividends in the fiscal year. We expect to continue to repurchase our common stock to offset dilution from share-based compensation and to be opportunistic with incremental repurchases. Given our capital and liquidity levels, we expect to maintain, or potentially increase, our share repurchase activity levels; however, we will continue to monitor market conditions and other capital needs as we consider the magnitude and timing of these repurchases.
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As we look ahead, we believe we are well-positioned for long-term growth, with our strong capital and liquidity position, total client assets under administration of $1.57 trillion and net bank loans of $46 billion. We expect our fiscal first quarter of 2025 results to be favorably impacted by higher asset management and related administrative fees, which will benefit from the 7% increase in both PCG fee-based assets and financial assets under management from June 30, 2024 to September 30, 2024. In addition, our financial advisor recruiting activity remains robust, including a strong recruiting pipeline. We also have a healthy investment banking pipeline, and we expect investment banking revenues to benefit as the market environment becomes more constructive for transaction closings over the next few quarters. Although the market is still challenging, we expect fixed income brokerage revenues to benefit from increased activity from depository institutions resulting from decreases in short-term interest rates and the yield curve steepening. While the decline in short-term interest rates is expected to have a favorable impact on certain of our businesses, we anticipate our combined net interest income and RJBDP fees from third-party banks will decrease in our fiscal 2025 due to the 50-basis point and 25-basis point decreases in short-term interest rates enacted by the Fed in September 2024 and November 2024, respectively; although the magnitude of such decline is largely dependent on the level of short-term interest rates, including any additional rate cuts in our fiscal 2025, our interest-earning asset levels, client cash balances, and other factors that may impact the current market environment. While we maintain discipline in controlling our expenses, we continue to invest to support growth across our businesses which may increase expenses in future periods. Corporate loan growth has remained muted in fiscal 2024, but we believe we are well-positioned to increase lending as new origination activity increases, which may increase provisions for credit losses in future periods. In addition, although our current loan portfolio credit metrics are solid and we continue to proactively manage our credit risk in our loan portfolio, future economic deterioration or changes in the macroeconomic outlook could also result in increased bank loan provisions for credit losses in future periods.
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(1)In March 2023, we introduced our ESP, in which PCG clients may deposit cash in a high-yield Raymond James Bank account. ESP balances held at Raymond James Bank as of the respective year end were included in “Bank deposits” on our Consolidated Statement of Financial Condition.
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Non-compensation expenses remained flat as higher communications and information processing expenses, occupancy and equipment expenses, and professional fees were offset by lower provisions for legal and regulatory matters.
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of certain loans, and loan downgrades during the year. These negative impacts on the prior-year provision were partially offset by the favorable impacts of loan repayments and sales, which had a larger impact than provisions on new loans during the prior year.
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Net revenues increased $40 million, primarily due to an increase in interest income earned as a result of higher short-term interest rates applicable to our corporate cash balances and, to a lesser extent, higher average corporate cash balances.
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Although we have liquidity available to us from our other subsidiaries, the available amounts may not be as significant as those previously described and, in certain instances, may be subject to regulatory requirements.
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In May 2024, Raymond James Bank entered into a joint venture with a third party to offer private credit solutions in order to finance clients’ merger and acquisition transactions. All loans made by the joint venture to borrower companies are subject to unanimous approval by both Raymond James Bank and the joint venture member. Raymond James Bank may make advances through a loan to the joint venture. The activity of this joint venture did not have a significant impact on our financial position or results of operations for the year ended September 30, 2024.
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In August 2024, the firm entered into a settlement (the “Settlement”) with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement to resolve an investigation of the firm’s compliance with records preservation requirements relating to business communications sent over electronic messaging channels that have not been approved by the firm. In the Settlement, the firm agreed to cease and desist from further violations of certain records preservation requirements, admitted the SEC’s factual findings, agreed to pay a civil monetary penalty of $50 million, agreed to engage an independent compliance consultant, and agreed to implement improvements to our related compliance policies and procedures.
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) has issued the Global Anti-Base Erosion Model Rules (“Pillar II”) which generally provides for multinational organizations to have a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15% in each jurisdiction in which they operate. We have foreign operations in the U.K, Canada, and Germany, and will be subject to certain portions of Pillar II beginning in fiscal 2025. We do not anticipate that Pillar II will have a material impact on our consolidated results of operations or effective income tax rate.
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this amendment only requires additional disclosures, adoption of this ASU will not have an impact on our financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.
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