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Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Investment Departments:...
Catalogue reference: CAOG 24
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CAOG 24
This series contains records of the Crown Agents' Investment Department showing details of the debt refinancing required by the British Land Company, and one example of Crown Agents overseas property developments in detail, the Orchard Square...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAOG 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Investment Departments: Registered Files (B1 and B3 Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969-1977
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Crown Agents' Investment Department showing details of the debt refinancing required by the British Land Company, and one example of Crown Agents overseas property developments in detail, the Orchard Square development in Singapore.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, Investment Department, 1969-1977
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Asia
- Debt
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These records were part of a larger collection retrieved by the PRO from the Millbank offices of the Crown Agents when the office was relocated to Sutton in 1985-1986. The Crown Agents gave the PRO authority to make a selection and to release selected files to the public. From 1986 to 1996 the records were held at the PRO's Hayes repository, at which time a selection review was carried out.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files selected show aspects of the investment policies of the Crown Agents in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the period leading up to its financial crisis.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Crown Agents adopted a policy of building up stock market and development land investment portfolios in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for which business an Investment Department was created. In unfavourable global economic conditions, the investments proved disasterous, and the Crown Agents were forced to seek government financial support in 1974. From that time, the policy was reversed, and the Department handled the work of disengaging from previous investment commitments at minimal cost to the organisation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15746/
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