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Stephen Zimmerman (investor)
Stephen Anthony Zimmerman (born April 1949) was deputy chairman and co-head of Mercury Asset Management throughout the 1990s alongside Carol Galley. Career Zimmerman joined City of London investment bank S.G. Warburg & Co. in 1971, becoming a director of investment subsidiary, Mercury Asset Management in 1979 and deputy chairman from 1990. Along with Galley, who joined the company at the same time, Zimmerman has been credited with driving the growth of Mercury Asset Management during the 1980s and 1990s. The author Philip Augar wrote of Mercury in the 1980s and 1990s: “Under the leadership of eterStormonth Darling and then the triumvirate of Hugh Stevenson, Carol Galley and Stephen Zimmerman, Mercury caught the rising tide of instructional investment in the UK quite brilliantly.” Following the sale of Mercury to Merrill Lynch in 1997, Zimmerman stayed on with Galley to lead the integration process as co-heads. Just as they had joined in the same year and worked closely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Asset Management
Mercury Asset Management plc was a leading British investment management business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The Company was established in 1969 when S. G. Warburg & Co., the investment bank, won an investment management contract and set up ''Warburg Investment Management'' to execute it. In 1987 25% of the business was floated on the London Stock Exchange as ''Mercury Asset Management''. Carol Galley, one of its leading managers, was credited with facilitating the takeovers by Granada of both London Weekend Television in 1994 and Forte Group in 1996. At its peak more than half the companies on the FTSE 100 used Mercury Asset Management for investment management purposes. In 1995 the Company achieved full independence when S. G. Warburg & Co. sold its investment banking business to Swiss Bank Corporation; through a scheme of arrangement the residue of S. G. Warburg & Co. became a subsidiary of Mercury Asset Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Galley
Carol Galley is a businesswoman who, as a director of Mercury Asset Management, was regarded as the most powerful woman in the City of London in the 1990s. She was educated at Gosforth Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne and at the University of Leicester. She no longer actively makes fund management decisions. She featured on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List The ''Sunday Times Rich List'' is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by net wealth. The list is updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday news ... with a personal wealth of £80 million. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the modern area named London has since grown far beyond the City of London boundary. The City is now only a small part of the metropolis of Greater London, though it remains a notable part of central London. Administratively, the City of London is not one of the London boroughs, a status reserved for the other 32 districts (including Greater London's only other city, the City of Westminster). It is also a separate ceremonial county, being an enclave surrounded by Greater London, and is the smallest ceremonial county in the United Kingdom. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City (differentiated from the phrase "the city of London" by ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stormonth Darling
Peter Stormonth Darling (29 September 1932 - 16 September 2019) was a British investment banker who was the chairman of Mercury Asset Management. He was raised on his family estate, Balvarran, in Strathardle, near Blairgowrie, Scotland. His father, Patrick, was a Scottish barrister, and his mother, Edith, was Irish. Educated at Winchester College, he was a strong cricketer, playing in the First XI in 1948 and 1949. His National service was in the Black Watch, extended to include service in Korea and the Second Battle of the Hook. He studied law at New College, Oxford, then moved to Canada where he worked for Siegmund George Warburg from 1957 to 1963. In 1979 Peter Stormonth Darling was appointed chairman of Warburg Investment Management which was renamed Mercury Asset Management Mercury Asset Management plc was a leading British investment management business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The Company was esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Stevenson (investment Banker)
Sir Hugh Alexander Stevenson (born 7 September 1942) is a businessman known for being a former chairman of Mercury Asset Management and Equitas. Career Stevenson began his career at law firm Linklaters and Paine before joining S.G. Warburg & Co. in 1970. He went on to become chairman of Mercury Asset Management from 1992 to 1998. Stevenson was on the board of Warburg from 1987 to 1995, at which point it was bought by SBC and its ties with Mercury Asset Management were severed. As Chairman of Mercury Asset Management, Stevenson oversaw the company’s sale to Merrill Lynch in late 1997, which saw Mercury colleagues Carol Galley and Stephen Zimmerman become co-heads of the newly created Merrill Lynch Investment Management (MLIM). Following his departure from Mercury Asset Management in 1998, Stevenson took on the chairmanship of Equitas, the company that was set up to reinsure the liabilities of over 30,000 “Names” of Lloyd’s of London insurance syndicates. He remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merrill Lynch
Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment banking arm, both firms engage in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities. The firm is headquartered in New York City, and once occupied the entire 34 stories of 250 Vesey Street, part of the Brookfield Place (New York City), Brookfield Place complex in Manhattan. Merrill employs over 14,000 financial analysts and manages $2.3 trillion in client assets. The company also operates Merrill Edge, an electronic trading platform. Prior to 2009, the company was publicly owned and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be acquired by Bank of America on September 14, 2008, at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the same weekend that Lehman Brothers was Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, allowed to fail. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Marks (financier)
Michael John Paul Marks (born 28 December 1941) is a British businessman, best known as executive chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe (1995 – 2003) and before that CEO and then chairman of City of London stockbroker Smith New Court (1985 to 1995) until its acquisition by Merrill Lynch in 1995. Career Marks’ career began at City of London stockjobbing firm Smith Brothers (later Smith New Court) in 1958, where he started as a messenger and then “blue button”, working his way up to the position of director in 1975. In 1987, Marks became CEO of what had then become Smith New Court when NM Rothschild had taken a stake. In 1995, he took over from Sir Michael Richardson as executive chairman of the firm, overseeing its sale to Merrill Lynch that same year. Marks left Merrill Lynch in 2003 to set up a new boutique investment house with other ex-Merrill Lynch colleagues. In a nod to their earlier days, the new venture was called NewSmith Capital Partners. Marks, along with co-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Care
Jewish Care is a British charity, working mainly in London and South East England, providing health and social care support services for the Jewish community. The charity runs over 70 centres and services which include care homes, community centres, independent living and other services such as support groups, a family carers team and telephone helpline. The organisation cares for more than 10,000 people every week, stating that they operate with the belief that Jewish people should have access to specialist services that are designed to meet their needs. Jewish Care claims this is reflected in the care it provides which recognises traditions, beliefs and cultures, which are frequently shared by Jews. Jewish festivals, including the weekly Sabbath, are celebrated in Jewish Care homes, independent living communities and community centres. Care and services are provided without assessment of the level or nature of an individual's religious observance. The charity has over 1,300 sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
