'Female investors within the Scottish investment trust movement in the 1870s' in A Laurence et al (eds), Women and their Money, 1750-1950. Essays on women and finance
Details:
- Author(s) Swan, Claire E
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2009
- Pages pp178-96
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published Abingdon
Topics:
- Name Investors & investor behaviour
- Name Women in business
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the significance of female investors in three Scottish investment trusts, based in Dundee, in the 1870s and in particular in 1879-80 when these trusts were reconstructed. Examines the number of female investors, size of their investments in relation to those of men, and their marital status to find that wives and widows as well as single women played a significant role. The trusts were First Scottish American Investment Trust Ltd, Second American Investment Trust Ltd and Third Scottish American Investment Trust Ltd