Origins of Asset Management from 1700 to 1960. Towering investors
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- Author(s) Morecroft, Nigel E
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 343pp; illus
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with 'origins and development of the asset management profession in Britain as a distinct activity within financial services', mostly focusing on post 1868 period. 'Argues that asset management has been socially useful and has had a beneficial impact on the development of securities markets'. Chapters include: 'Markets and insurance company investments, 1700 to 1900' [including the Pelican Life Office]; 'Philip Rose and the first investment company, 1868 to 1883' [Foreign & Colonial]; 'Robert Fleming and Scottish asset management, 1873 to 1890'; 'Life office investment, 1900 to 1960, and John Maynard Keynes' [includes National Mutual Life Assurance Society]; 'Keynes - flawed investor or genius?'; 'George Booth, Ian Fairburn and the first trust units, 1931 to 1960'; 'George Ross Goobey, revolutionising pension fund investment, 1947 to 1960' [includes Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund and Rowntree Pension Fund]; 'Observations from the past'