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Series
Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Four Millbank Unit Trust...
Catalogue reference: CAOG 26
What's it about?
CAOG 26
This series contains papers of the Secretary of Four Millbank Investments Limited.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAOG 26
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Title (The name of the record)
- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Four Millbank Unit Trust Fund Managers Limited and Four Millbank Investments Limited: Company Secretary's Files (4MI Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains papers of the Secretary of Four Millbank Investments Limited.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other Company files can be found in CAOG 21
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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4MI
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations, Four Millbank Unit Trust Fund Mgrs, 1963-1967
- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, Four Millbank Investments Ltd, 1967-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 2003 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
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The records in this series are the remains of a larger collection of 4MI series files retrieved with other records from the Crown Agents' Millbank offices when the organisation moved to Sutton. The records were stored and later reviewed by the PRO.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series ran from 1963
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.2, documenting the management of the Company in the period leading up to the Crown Agents' financial crisis. Series will not excede 1m in total.
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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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Four Millbank Unit Trust Fund Managers Limited, a company limited by shares, was incorporated in December 1963, to act as a manager for unit trust schemes constituted by the Crown Agents (in particular the Four Millbank Unit Trust Fund). The Company's name was amended in 1967 to Four Millbank Investments Limited. Originally, the shares of the Company were held by the Crown Agents, but from 1971 the Company rules were changed to allow shares to be held by another Company, Four Millbank Holdings Limited, and in 1972 the Company was permitted to widen the scope of its activities. This was part of a trend of loose financial control of Crown Agents investment activities at the time which resulted in huge over-exposure in vulnerable markets in the mid-1970s. The financial crisis which followed ended with the UK government financially supporting the Crown Agents, several inquiries into mismanagement in the organisation and its thorough re-structuring. Most of these inquiries focused on the work and practices of Four Millbank Investments Limited.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15999/
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Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Four Millbank Unit Trust Fund Managers Limited and Four Millbank Investments Limited: Company Secretary's Files (4MI Series)
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