M&G Investments

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M&G Investments

Industry	Financial services
Key people	Michael McLintock, (CEO)[citation needed]
Products	Financial services
Revenue	£455 million (2008)[citation needed]
Operating income	£228 million (2008)[citation needed]
Employees	approx 1000 (2008)[citation needed]
Website	http://www.mandg.co.uk

M&G Investments

M&G is a leading investment manager in the UK and overseas^{[citation needed]}. It is an autonomous business within the Prudential Group^{[citation needed]}, running its own retail and institutional funds operation^{[citation needed]} and functioning as the asset manager for Prudential in Europe^{[citation needed]}. Currently M&G is the official sponsor of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show^{[citation needed]}.

M&G invests in and manages a wide range of assets including Equities, Fixed Income and Property^{[citation needed]}. M&G also manages more esoteric assets within the private finance arena such as Structured Products (including CDOs), Leveraged Finance, Project and Infrastructure Finance^{[citation needed]}.

Key events, funds & UK awards

Municipal & General Securities Company Limited launched the unit trust industry in the UK in 1931^{[citation needed]}. Since then M&G has had a history of firsts, including the launch of:

• the first UK regular savings plan in 1954^{[citation needed]}

• the first unit trust for charities in 1961^{[citation needed]}

• the first equity income fund in 1964^{[citation needed]}

• the first recovery fund in 1969^{[citation needed]}

• the first Japanese equity fund in 1971^{[citation needed]}

• the first commodity fund available to retail investors in 1976^{[citation needed]}

• the first ‘pure' corporate bond fund in 1994^{[citation needed]}

• the first high yield corporate bond fund in 1998^{[citation needed]}

• the first Leveraged Loans Fund in Europe in 2005^{[citation needed]}

M&G’s largest funds:

• M&G Recovery Fund^{[citation needed]}

• M&G Global Basics Fund^{[citation needed]}

• M&G Corporate Bond Fund^{[citation needed]}

• M&G Strategic Corporate Bond Fund^{[citation needed]}

• M&G Optimal Income Fund^{[citation needed]}

• M&G American Fund^{[citation needed]}

• M&G Property Portfolio^{[citation needed]}

M&G’s recent UK awards include:

2010

• Investment Week – Best Global Group^{[citation needed]}

• Morningstar – M&G Investments - Best Multi-Asset House^{[citation needed]}

• Morningstar – M&G Investments - Best Specialist Fixed Interest House^{[citation needed]}

• Global Pensions – M&G Investments - Fixed Income Manager Of The Year^{[citation needed]}

• The Personal Finance Awards - Best Investment Product Provider – Highly commended^{[citation needed]}

• Professional Adviser – M&G Investments - Best UK Equity Growth Group^{[citation needed]}

• Professional Adviser – M&G Investments – Best Fixed Income Group^{[citation needed]}

• Money Observer Awards – M&G Investments – Best Bond Fund Management Group^{[citation needed]}

International presence

M&G manages assets on behalf of a wide range of investors across UK, Europe, Asia, the Americas and South Africa^{[citation needed]}. The past few years has seen an expansion of M&G’s distribution network throughout Europe:^{[citation needed]}

• 2001 – Opened its first office in mainland Europe to service clients based in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg^{[citation needed]}

• 2004 – Opened an office in Milan, Italy^{[citation needed]}

• 2005 – Opened offices in Vienna, Frankfurt and Madrid, and began distribution into Switzerland^{[citation needed]}

• 2007 – Opened an office in Paris, France^{[citation needed]}

Management structure

Michael McLintock is the Chief Executive of M&G a position he held at the time of M&G's acquisition by Prudential in March 1999^{[citation needed]}. He is also an executive director of Prudential^{[citation needed]}.

Simon Pilcher is a Director of M&G Limited and has been the Chief Executive of the Fixed Income division since 1999^{[citation needed]}.

William Nott is Chief Executive of M&G Securities, the combined Retail Business covering the UK, Europe and Asia since March 2006^{[citation needed]}.

Grant Speirs was appointed Group Finance Director of M&G in November 2008^{[citation needed]}.

Martin Lewis has been the Chief Operating Officer for M&G Group since 1999^{[citation needed]}.

Anthony Ashplant has been the Legal and Compliance Director of M&G since 1997^{[citation needed]}.

Gareth Jones was appointed HR Director for M&G Group in June 2007^{[citation needed]}.

Les Scrine has been the M&G Group Risk Director since March 2003^{[citation needed]}.

Martin Moore has been head of PruPIM, the real estate investment arm of M&G since 1996^{[citation needed]}

External links

• M&G
• UK Investor
• UK Financial Adviser
• UK Institutional
• M&G Charities
• M&G Austria
• M&G France
• M&G Germany
• M&G Italy
• M&G Luxembourg
• M&G Spain
• M&G Switzerland
• Prudential Plc Annual Report 2008