- Schroders
Infobox Company
company_name = Schroders plc
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company_type = Public (lse|SDR)
foundation = 1804
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key_people = Michael Miles, Chairman
Michael Dobson,CEO
industry =Investment management
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revenue = £1,192 million (2007)
operating_income = £348 million (2007)
net_income = £304 million (2007)
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homepage = [http://www.schroders.com www.schroders.com]
footnotes =Schroders plc (lse|SDR) is a leading global,
asset management company, with over two hundred years of experience in the world's financial markets. Headquartered in theCity of London , it is traded on theLondon Stock Exchange and is a constituent of theFTSE 100 Index .Schroders has two share classes: voting shares (SDR.L) and non-voting shares (SDRt.L).
Schroders bears the name of the Schroder family.
History
Schroders' history began in 1804 when Johann Heinrich Schröder became a partner in his brother's
London based firm. In 1818 J. Henry Schröder & Co. was established inLondon .Key developments in the development of the business included the establishment of J Henry Schroder Banking Corporation ('Schrobanko') as a
commercial bank inNew York in 1923, the public offering of the shares in J. Henry Schroder & Co. Ltd on theLondon Stock Exchange in 1959 and the acquisition of Helbert, Wagg & Co, a leading issuing house, in 1962.In 1986 the Company disposed of Schrobanko, its commercial banking arm in
New York and acquired 50% of Wertheim & Co, a mid-tierNew York based investment bank, whose activities more closely mirrored those of theLondon business.Schroders played a leading role in the privatisations carried out by the UK Government in the 1980s and was to grow dramatically under
Winfried Bischoff . Schroders was worth £30 million when he took over asCEO in 1984: yet in 2000 the company sold theinvestment bank ing division toCitigroup for £1.3 billion. Citigroup's European investment banking arm traded as Schroder Salomon Smith Barney from 2000 to 2003. [ [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article640948.ece Citigroup boss banks on his 'foot soldiers'] -The Times - September 17, 2006]Current operations
Its clients include corporations, insurance companies, local and public authorities, charities, pension funds, high net worth individuals and retail investors. Schroders operates in twenty eight countries, through 37 offices, providing wide geographic coverage. This allows Schroders to access clients in the traditional areas of the UK, Europe, US and Japan where the demand for asset management services is long established, and the fast-growing savings pools in the emerging and more recently developed economies in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Talking Point
Alan Brown, who joined as Head of Investment in 2005 from
State Street Corporation , has launched an initiative to bring the external perceptions of the company up to speed with reality. To this end, the 'Talking Point' website has been set up in order to reflect and promote Schroders' position as a 'thought leader' in the fields of investment management, finance, and economics. Alan Brown himself has recently enjoyed considerable press exposure by virtue of his own 'thought leadership' on liability-driven investment as a way to approach not only thepensions crisis, but pension investment in general.Notable current and former employees
Business
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Geoffrey Bell - Chairman of Guiness Mahon (1987 - 1993) and founder of theGroup of Thirty
*Winfried Bischoff - Chairman ofCitigroup (2007 - present)
*Andrew Knight - Editor ofThe Economist (1974 - 1986)Politics and public service
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David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie -Lord Chamberlain (1984 - 1997)
*Gordon Richardson - Governor of theBank of England (1973 - 1983)
*James Wolfensohn - President of theWorld Bank (1995 - 2005)
*SirJohn Henry Bremridge KBE, JP, MA -Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1981 - 1986) [ Sir John Henry Bremridge served as a non executive director of Schroders plc. Please also refer to [http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=zrtdjjhI7u8 1987年1月9日 - 無綫翡翠台今日財經(TVB Jade Midnight Finance of January 9, 1987)] ]Other
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Avery Rockefeller - member of theRockefeller family References
Further reading
*cite book | author=Roberts, Richard | title=Schroders, Merchants & Bankers | publisher=Macmillan Press | location=Basingstoke, UK | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-333-44511-2
External links
* [http://www.schroders.com/ Schroders Company Website]
* [http://www.schroders.com/talkingpoint/ Schroders Talkingpoint]
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