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01. Charles-James de Rothschild Hospital and dispensary, Oise 02. Dispensary founded by Laura-Thérèse de Rothschild 03. Report on the newly founded Charles-James de Rothschild Hospital, 1896 04. The original Clementine Hospital founded by Louise von Rothschild, 1896
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Early investments in the health of communities
As our Group is today, from its earliest successes the Rothschild family was committed to supporting the communities in which it worked. One of the most significant contributions made by the family was in the field of medicine. The first of these was the construction in 1852 of a hospice in Paris on the rue de Picpus, by a foundation established by James de Rothschild. In 2025 the Clementine Children’s Hospital, Frankfurt, celebrated its 150th anniversary. The hospital was established by Baroness Louise von Rothschild to provide free care for girls, in memory of her daughter who died aged 20. The Charles-James de Rothschild Hospital in France was originally founded in 1891 by Laura-Thérèse de Rothschild as a dispensary and a hospital. 100 years ago, in 1925, Baroness Nelly de Rothschild created the first anti-tuberculosis and anti-venereal dispensary in Oise as well as a nutrition advisory centre at Creil.
Our story
Drawing on a heritage spanning seven generations
When Mayer Amschel Rothschild created his family business in the 1760s he understood the value of building a reputation for trust, and preserving that reputation for the long term.
And when his five sons expanded the business across Europe at the turn of the 19th century they, in turn, appreciated the importance of close collaboration, trusted relationships and detailed local market knowledge, which remain as important to Rothschild & Co today as they did then.
These qualities were enshrined in the foundation document of our modern business, the Rothschild family’s first partnership agreement, created by Mayer Amschel in 1810. The tenets of the agreement became the model adopted by his five sons as they established the business in the financial centres of Europe: London, Paris, Vienna, Naples and Frankfurt.
Supported by their wives and extended connections, the brothers established the family business' reputation and network in new markets. By investing in expertise, their businesses became seen as the authority on new ventures and markets.
Over 200 years later and in our seventh generation of family leadership, the tenets of the original agreement, and the acumen of the five brothers and their families, are evident in the way we approach our businesses and our people.
We have remained at the centre of the world’s financial markets for more than two centuries, through changing times and upheavals. An “eighteenth century start-up”, we have retained an entrepreneurial spirit, embracing innovation and never resting on our laurels.
Our heritage provides us with both a strong foundation, and a clear vision for the future.”
ALEXANDRE DE ROTHSCHILD — Executive Chairman
Anniversaries of 2025
1785
Founder Mayer Amschel Rothschild bought a house at the sign of the Green Shield in Frankfurt, from where the family business thrived
1815
Brothers Carl and Salomon began doing business in Amsterdam, prior to setting up their operations in Naples and Vienna respectively
1825
An early groundbreaking loan was arranged for Brazil, enabling the country to buy its independence from Portugal. The business raised 26 loans across the world between 1818 and 1835
1845
The family arranged finance for the travels in Europe of Queen Victoria. The relationship with the Queen and her descendants endured
We help to create the Alliance British and Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Co, to address the exclusion of Jews and Quakers from British insurance market
1855
Amschel, Salomon and Carl, three of Mayer Amschel’s five sons, died, leaving only James, the youngest of his generation
1855
The Rothschild businesses issued loans for the French, British and Turkish governments
1875
Loans were issued for Brazil and New Zealand
1885
Nathaniel de Rothschild, senior partner in the UK business, was created Lord Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in the House of Lords
1905
Henri de Rothschild founded L’oeuvre philanthropique du Vin, which made good quality wine available to working people
1925
The sale by Lionel de Rothschild of Gunnersbury Park in West London transferred 186 acres of land for public use
1995
Our Leeds office opened
2005
Formation of our Wealth Management business in Spain
Some key moments in our story
The Rothschild family traces its origins back to 15th century Frankfurt. The records of our Group begin with Mayer Amschel Rothschild in 1769, who built a successful family business.
1810
The five brothers combined their local knowledge, networks and entrepreneurial spirit to become leaders and innovators with international reach. An early success was their transformation of the sovereign bond market, creating better outcomes for both lender and borrower. The brothers' businesses would go on to issue bonds and loans for countries on every continent.
1800s
Rothschild support for new innovations and new global markets helped shape the future of our world. A key example is railways, helping to establish early networks in France, India, Brazil and other countries, which opened up new markets and increased social mobility. Other transformative projects included shipping canals, the London Underground, and mining, where our assessment of opportunities was seen as authoritative.
1800s onwards
The five brothers combined their local knowledge, networks, and entrepreneurial spirit to become leaders and innovators with international reach.
An early success was their transformation of the sovereign bond market, creating better outcomes for both lender and borrower. The brothers' businesses would go on to issue bonds and loans for countries on every continent.
1870-1871
Rothschild family members worked together across Europe to promote peace in the build-up to the Franco-Prussian war.The French business endured significant adversity during the invasion. Members of the business attended the peace negotiations, and helped France raise sufficient funds to complete payments two years ahead of schedule, ending the Prussian occupation.
1923
Following the devastating 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, the UK business participated in the Tokyo Reconstruction loan to help the Japanese state rebuild the city.
1940s
Rothschild family businesses endured World War II through the tenacity, optimism and skill of their people. Members of the French family in exile in New York created the basis of our modern US business.
1950-1990s
The group re-established itself in peacetime. The French business developed rapidly post-war, particularly in Asset Management and Wealth Management. We established new offices in every corner of the globe, from Milan to Mexico, Jakarta to Johannesburg, Sydney to São Paulo, reflecting our understanding of the importance of local knowledge in a transforming world.
1980s
The Group became leaders in new areas of financial services, such as privatisations, devising a programme for the UK and adapting it for many countries. A major challenge to our French business was its nationalisation by the Government, losing its historic home and ability to trade under the family’s name. Led by David and Éric de Rothschild, family members and associates worked together across borders to rebuild the French business, regaining its market-leading position and use of the family name.
2003
Our French and UK businesses merged to create a unified group with a single and clear vision under the leadership of David de Rothschild.
2023
Rothschild & Co delisted from the Euronext Paris stock exchange, demonstrating the family’s confidence in our business. We strengthened our shareholding structure, reflecting our belief in collegiality and partnership.
2003-Today
We continue to pool our expertise, extend our global reach and innovate new solutions for the benefit of our clients. Significant events include our French wealth management business’ merger with Banque Martin Maurel in 2016, the launch of Global Advisory’s Financing Advisory offering, and the creation of Five Arrows in 2009.
Our approach to business
Rothschild & Co is a family-controlled group of three established and highly complementary market-leading businesses, aided by specialist support functions and united by a shared approach.
Our common approach is a unique fusion of our heritage, scale and expertise.
This creates a differentiated proposition that benefits our clients, partners, stakeholders and colleagues. It helps us to build strong market positions for each of our businesses and supports our Group’s sustainable performance and growth.
The way we do business
- Client focus – building enduring relationships, remaining highly connected and valuing long-term success
- Excellence – demonstrating deep know-how and breadth of experience, considered and strategic thinking and an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset
- Partnership culture –collaborating, sharing knowledge and opportunities and seeking synergies between businesses
- Strong principles – committed to a culture of integrity and doing the right thing
- Global reach built from local presence – enabling us to fully understand our clients’ ecosystems, and bridge cross-border differences
- Sustainability – a long-term ambition to use our expertise and influence to help facilitate the sustainability transition of the global economy
We are like the mechanism of a watch... each part is essential.”
Salomon von Rothschild to his brother Nathan Mayer Rothschild, c.1818
Our global scale
We understand the importance of local knowledge and close proximity to our clients in providing exceptional service. The unrivalled scale of our global network enables us to assist our clients wherever they, their business or their assets are located.
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50
Countries
72
Locations
Our people
Rothschild & Co is a company of opportunity, entrepreneurialism and growth.
Our approach to our people is rooted in the family motto and our approach to business. They inform our leadership ethos and the way we hire and develop our colleagues.
For more than 200 years our success has been built upon our people. Throughout that time, we have been driven by the pursuit of excellence – always going the extra mile for our clients while taking a long-term view, seeking success and growth that can be measured over decades. We believe that enduring success requires innovation, openness to change and listening closely to the evolving needs of our clients.
A strong and distinct culture
We are, at our core, a family-owned business. The enduring role of the family has a lasting influence on our culture. We place great emphasis on integrity and doing the right thing, on building trust, treating others fairly, and holding ourselves and each other accountable for our decisions and what we do.
Teamwork has always been fundamental to our approach. By collaborating within and across teams, we can bring the combined strength and breadth of our abilities to bear on our clients’ challenges.
To support the diverse range of clients we work with across the world effectively, we build teams with a broad mix of backgrounds, skills and experience. We take pride in a workplace where everyone feels welcome, included and respected.
A long-term approach to colleague growth
We invest in finding the right colleagues to take our group forward. We hire the best minds and are creative in where we find them, providing market-leading early careers programmes where new joiners can make an important contribution to our Group from day one.
Once we find the right people, we invest deeply in their professional growth and development to help them build a successful career with us, and to the benefit of our clients. We provide a broad range of learning opportunities that support individuals in building new skills and increasing knowledge at every stage of their careers, including mentoring and wellbeing support. We recognise that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to career development.
Rothschild & Co is the sum total of our outstanding people.
> To learn more about working at Rothschild & Co, and for current career opportunities, please visit our website
As a people business, we understand the importance of nurturing talent to the future success of our group.”
ALEXANDRE DE ROTHSCHILD — Executive Chairman
2025 achievements
784
New joiners were welcomed to the Group, of which 42.7% were women
178
Joined us through the global graduate programme
Global people survey:
11 of 13
engagement drivers across management, leadership, culture, inclusion and wellbeing
115
Partners and MDS attended the Rothschild & Co Leadership Forum to explore how innovation, collaboration and critical thinking can drive high performance
Our sustainability priorities
As a long-term oriented business, we want to use our expertise and influence to help facilitate the sustainability transition of the global economy.
The rapidly evolving sustainability landscape presents both a challenge and an opportunity for any business, including many of our clients, as they balance short-term risks and opportunities with long-term outcomes and ambitions. As a family-controlled and diversified financial services group, with more than 200 years of experience, we can play a role in supporting clients on their transition journey and in navigating change.
Our strategic sustainability priority framework provides the Group with a joint and nuanced view on the overall objectives, priority levers andactions to focus on, including addressing the most material sustainability-related impacts, risks and opportunities across the business model. The framework is underpinned by KPIs and strategic action plans for each of the business lines.
Throughout 2025, our investment businesses continued to develop and implement their Responsible Investment strategy according to the legal framework and asset class specificities. Our Global Advisory business continued to take a leading advisory role on transactions relating to innovative energy and climate transition technology and energy management1. In the meantime, the Group continued to progress against its targets and commitments aimed at fostering an inclusive people culture, as well as reducing operational greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information, please refer to the 2025 Sustainability progress and policy statement.
Low-carbon transition
Helping sustain and grow value from the low-carbon transition for our clients, our investors and our businesses
- Advising our clients on navigating, retaining and realising value from the low-carbon transition
- Identifying transition-related investment opportunities for our clients and investors
- Using our influence to promote transition-related technologies
- Managing inherent climate-related investment risks and impacts
- Decarbonising our own footprint
Distinct people culture
Attracting, developing and retaining high-potential, team-oriented and self-motivated colleagues to deliver the best expertise for our businesses, our clients and investors
- Providing a balanced, inclusive and supportive environment where different perspectives are valued and respected. Our ambition is to increase diversity of thought and experiences at all levels and specifically in more senior leadership roles
- Providing professional development opportunities and the conditions to enable individuals to build skills, maximise their potential and progress in their careers
- Encouraging respect for colleagues’ life outside of work
- Encouraging responsible employment practices through engagement with companies
Business conduct
Conducting business fairly and with integrity to sustain the trust of our clients and our investors, and to protect our Group in the long term
- Fostering a responsible Group culture and prudent approach to risk that protects our clients, investors and our business in the long-term
- Preserving the confidentiality of the information shared with us by our clients, investors and employees
- Encouraging responsible business conduct through engagement with companies
Key numbers and targets
21%
absolute reduction in operational greenhouse gas emissions since 2023
Operational 2030 targets
35% reduction of scope 3 business travel-related emissions per FTE and 42% absolute reduction of scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions (2023 baseline)
Five Arrows 2029 target
39% of eligible private equity portfolio by invested value with SBTi-validated targets (100% by 2040)
Asset Management 2030 target
75% of directly managed open-ended funds’ assets invested in companies with objectives aligned with a 1.5°C scenario
29.9%
female assistant directors and above2
28.6%
female members in management board2
25.0%
female members in group partners committee2
2029 target2
33% Female Assistant Director and above
2030 target2
30% Female Members on Management Board and on the Group Partners Committee
All figures provided are as of 31 December 2025, except where stated differently 1. LSEG, Sustainable Finance Review: Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Adviser League Table, by number of transactions, excluding accountancy firms 2. Excluding the United States
Our philanthropic foundation
Empowering young people to shape a better, more equitable future
The Rothschild & Co Foundation helps young people develop the future-ready skills and competencies they need to navigate a changing world and drive positive change. Skills such as communication, creativity, critical thinking, digital literacy and environmental responsibility support continuous learning, foster meaningful connections and amplify young voices. Guided by the Rothschild family’s philanthropic legacy and the Group’s long-term vision, our strategy to 2030 focuses on three connected priorities:
- Young People: embracing skills development for future-ready minds
- Communities: supporting local solutions to social and environmental challenges
- Non profits: strengthening a resilient and innovative charity sector to drive systemic change
Our approach
We fund transformative ideas that create positive futures and opportunities for young people, prioritising those aged 5 to 21 facing disadvantage. Through partnerships worldwide, we support locally led initiatives that deliver lasting solutions.
By collaborating with non-profits and social enterprises, we maximise our impact with Rothschild & Co’s resources and expertise. Our support includes:
A year of transition
In 2026, we will celebrate five years since the launch of the Group’s philanthropic initiative. Our name has evolved from R&Co4Generations to the Rothschild & Co Foundation, but our commitment to empower young people to shape a better future remains.
2025 achievements
188,314
beneficiaries aged 5-30 supported1, primarily from under-resourced backgrounds
69%
of beneficiaries have notably improved their confidence, soft skills, and academic performance through project participation
48
charity partners working in 16 countries
20%
of colleagues engaged2 with R&Co4Generations' activities
The reporting period is 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. The preparation and coordination of the annual impact evaluation involved members of Rothschild & Co Group entities, the King Baudouin Foundation and R&Co4Generations’ non-profit partners.
1. Support includes restricted and unrestricted funding to deliver projects that benefit young people 2. Directly interacted with partners through volunteering, giving and events
To learn more, please visit the Rothschild & Co website.
Greening Soweto with SUGi and WONDER Foundation
We connected two of our global partners, SUGi and WONDER Foundation, to create the Ithuba Unity Forest at Bona Comprehensive School in Soweto, Johannesburg. Set beneath the iconic Soweto Towers, this pocket forest transforms an urban schoolyard into a living classroom for environmental education and sustainability. It also supports women and girls through leadership-focused after-school programmes. The discovery of groundwater during its development will strengthen the forest’s long-term resilience and benefit more than 1,000 students and the wider community. This project shows how thoughtful collaboration can strengthen impact and help communities drive meaningful change.
Helping the GO Project expand, New York
Colleagues in New York are providing pro bono support to our regional partner, GO Project, a non-profit that helps NYC public school students thrive through year-round academic, social-emotional and family programmes. The team conducted a financial analysis to guide expansion to a new Brooklyn site, refined models to assess staffing needs and costs for current and future programmes, and optimised enrolment for greater efficiency. These insights are informing decisions on sustainable growth and resource allocation, paving the way for impactful expansion in 2026.
