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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Origins of Asset Management from 1700 to 1960
    sub title: Towering Investors
  name:
    name part: Morecroft, Nigel Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 343 p. 12 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the origins and development of the asset management profession in Britain as a distinct activity within financial services, independent of banks and stockbrokers. Specifically, it identifies the main individuals and institutions after 1868 who established the profession. The book draws a distinction between banks (short-term deposit-taking) and asset management (an investment service with longer-term objectives). It explains why some banks fail but asset management businesses generally do not. It argues that asset management has been socially useful and has had a beneficial impact on the development of securities markets by offering choices to savers as an alternative to banks, improving the efficiency of capital allocation, re-cycling excess savings productively and enabling a range of investors - from institutions to individuals - to benefit from thoughtful, long-term investing.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction adn overview -- Chapter 2: Markets and insurance company investments,1700 to 1900.-Chapter 3: Philip Rose and the first investment company, 1868 to 1883.-Chapter 4: Robert Fleming and Scottish asset management, 1873 to 1890.- Chapter 5: Life office investment 1900 to 1960, and John Maynard Keynes -- Chapter 6: Keynes - flawed investor or genius? Chapter 7: George Booth, Ian Fairburn and the first trust units, 1931 to 1960 -- Chapter 8: George Ross Goobey, revolutionising pension fund investment, 1947 to 1960.- Chapter 9: Observations from the past.
  note: by Nigel Edward Morecroft.
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Investment banking
  subject:
    topic: Securities
  subject:
    topic: Finance--History
  subject:
    topic: Capital investments
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Financial History
  subject:
    topic: Investments and Securities
  subject:
    topic: Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning
  subject:
    topic: Investment Appraisal
  classification: HG171
  classification: 332.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
  identifier: 9783319518503
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51850-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 170424
    record change date: 20171208213717.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-51850-3