Henderson Group plc was a global investment management company with its principal place of business in the
City of London
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. It merged with
Janus Capital Group
Janus Capital Group, Inc. was an American publicly owned investment firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
The company's asset-management disciplines included growth, core, international, value, mathematical, alternative and fixed-income. These ...
in May 2017 to create
Janus Henderson
Janus Henderson is a British-American global asset management group headquartered in the City of London, United Kingdom. It offers a range of financial products to individuals, intermediary advisors and institutional investors globally under the ...
.
History
The Company was established in 1934 to administer the estates of
Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon
Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon (28 September 1850 – 17 March 1934), known as Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, from 1902 to 1916, was a British financier and Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament.
Biography
Henderson was the ...
.
In 1975, it started managing
pension funds
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Pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest and are the major investors in listed and priva ...
.
[ It was first listed on the ]London Stock Exchange
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in 1983.[ On re-listing as HHG Group in 2003, the group comprised Henderson Global Investors (a UK-based investment manager), Life Services (comprising the life and pension books of ]Pearl Assurance
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History
The company was founded in 1857 a ...
, NPI, National Provident Life, London Life, and HHG Services) and the financial advisory firm, Towry Law.[
Between 2008 and 2012, the Group was tax-resident in the Republic of Ireland. With effect from 12 December 2012, the Group changed its tax residency from the Republic of Ireland to the UK by means of a corporate restructuring. In 2010, the company phased out the New Star name, and in 2014, the company rolled out a new brand identity.
In May 2017, the company completed a merger with ]Janus Capital Group
Janus Capital Group, Inc. was an American publicly owned investment firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
The company's asset-management disciplines included growth, core, international, value, mathematical, alternative and fixed-income. These ...
to form Janus Henderson
Janus Henderson is a British-American global asset management group headquartered in the City of London, United Kingdom. It offers a range of financial products to individuals, intermediary advisors and institutional investors globally under the ...
.
Acquisitions and sales
Operations
The company invests in four primary asset classes: equities
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, fixed income
Fixed income refers to any type of investment under which the borrower or issuer is obliged to make payments of a fixed amount on a fixed schedule. For example, the borrower may have to pay interest at a fixed rate once a year and repay the prin ...
, property
Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, r ...
and private equity
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. Its institutional product range also includes several hedge funds (under the Alphagen name).
References
External links
Official site
Google Finance profile
Simon Ward Blog
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Investment management companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct companies based in London
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
Financial services companies established in 1934
1934 establishments in England
Financial services companies disestablished in 2017
2017 disestablishments in England
2017 mergers and acquisitions
Tax inversions
British companies disestablished in 2017
British companies established in 1934