Charterhouse Group

Sectors:

  • Financial services Investment management services inc investment trusts, unit trust, pension funds, etc
  • Financial services Merchant & investment banking services
  • Financial services Private equity / venture capital financing

Notes:

Established 1925 as Charterhouse Investment Trust led, inter alia, by Sir Arthur Wheeler and (Sir) Nutcombe Hume, to sponsor security issues. 1934 established Charterhouse Industrial Development Co Ltd to supply venture capital to small and medium businesses. 1938 Charterhouse Finance Corp established to deal with issuing work. 1954 acquired S Japhet & Co, merchant bankers, which was subsequently renamed Charterhouse Japhet. 1957 acquired insurance brokers, Glanville Enthoven & Co. Floated 1959 as Charterhouse Group. 1986 acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland Plc

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