We believe the best companies continue to evolve. Legal & General Group has done this throughout its history, reaching back almost 200 years. As the asset management arm of L&G, we have become one of the largest asset managers in the world today. We have achieved this through a strong commitment to product innovation, enhancing client service and our expertise in developing responsible long-term, risk-aware investment solutions.
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A timeline of significant events reaching back to 1836.
2020: LGIM is rated top for responsible investment compared to world’s 15 largest asset managers by ShareAction.
2020 : LGIM named Best ESG Asset Manager at the Corporate Adviser Awards
2020 : LGIM ranked top among the world’s asset managers for our approach to Climate change by NGO ShareAction
2020 : LGIM received the Citywire Gender Diversity ‘Judges’ Choice’ Award in 2020 for our stewardship work on gender diversity and leading position on ethnicity, as well as for the female representation in our business at board, executive and other senior levels
2019: LGIM becomes the largest asset manager to adopt the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
2018/19: LGIM wins ‘Best ESG Manager’ at Corporate Advisor Awards
2016: LGIM’s Future World fund is launched incorporating LGIM’s proprietary ESG scores.
2016: LGIM launches Climate Impact Pledge
2015:LGIM and National Grid UK Pension Scheme agree strategic partnership to manage £12 billion of assets across fixed income, LDI and equities
2015:LGIM’s share of the fast-growing DC market continues. DC AUM rises 13% to £46.1bn. Number of customers hits 1.8m.
2015:LGIM cements its position as largest UK asset manager, with over $1 trillion AUM (£757 billion)*.
2013:LGIM’s first SICAV structure approved, giving European investors easier access to LGIM strategies.
2012:LGIM opens Hong Kong office, delivering our services and capabilities to Asian markets.
2012:LGIM’s AUM passes the £500 billion mark
2011:LGIM expands its market-leading corporate governance team to cover all major developed equity markets
2010: LGIM Investment Stewardship team undertakes international engagement programs
2009:LGIM’s AUM reaches £300bn - 4.5% of UK stock market, as represented by the FTSE All-Share Index (as at 31 Dec’ 09)
2008:LGIM named UK’s No.1 pension fund manager in the annual FTFM Pension Fund Manager Survey
2006:LGIM opens LGIMA - a Chicago-based investment manager specialising in fixed income and LDI strategies
2005:LGIM launches range of pooled liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies
2003:LGIM becomes the leading manager of UK pension fund assets
2001:LGIM works with major client to develop one of UK’s first LDI strategies
2000: Creation of LGIM Investment Stewardship team
1988:LGIM establishes its private equity team, Legal & General Venture Capital
1987:Legal & General Property founded
1987:LGIM is the first UK company to offer pooled index strategies for UK pension funds
1986:LGIM is appointed by its first external client for index strategy management
1971:LGIM launches its first active fixed income strategy
1970:Legal & General Investments is established (later to became LGIM), and starts to manage assets for pension funds, institutional and private clients
1836:Legal & General Life Assurance Society is founded
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