Gartmore Group

Gartmore Group Limited
Type	Public
Traded as	LSE: GRT
Industry	Investment management
Founded	1969; 57 years ago
Defunct	2011; 15 years ago
Fate	Bought by Henderson Group
Headquarters	London, UK
Key people	Andrew Skirton (Chairman); Jeffrey Meyer (CEO)
Revenue	£278.3 million (2009)
Operating income	£53.1 million (2009)
Net income	£47.6 million (2009)
Website	gartmore.com; Archived 2 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine

Gartmore Group Limited was a British-based investment management business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange.

History

The company was founded in 1969 by British & Commonwealth and acquired by Banque Indosuez in 1989.^[2] It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1993.^[2] It was then bought by NatWest in 1996 and by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2000 before becoming part of the investment portfolio of Hellman & Friedman, a private equity fund, in 2006.^[2] It was re-listed on the London Stock Exchange in December 2009.^[3]

Henderson Group announced its acquisition of the company in January 2011.^[4]

The company had £22.2 billion of assets under management as at 31 December 2009.^[1]

1 2 3 4 "Preliminary Results for the year ended 31st December 2009". Gartmore Group Limited. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
1 2 3 "Gartmore: under new ownership". Hedgefund Journal. 1 June 2006. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012.
↑ Gartmore IPO looks opportunistic Daily Telegraph, 23 October 2009
↑ Henderson agrees to buy Gartmore for £335.3m Daily Telegraph, 12 January 2011