MERCHANT INVESTORS ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4715
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: MERCHANT INVESTORS ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1976-1978
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Merchant Investors Assurance Company Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Merchant Investors was incorporated in 1970 and underwrote high net worth life and pension products mainly for Independent Financial Advisors. The company was taken over in 2003 by Sanlam, a South African investment company. As of 23 December 2003, Sanlam Life and Pensions UK Limited operated as a subsidiary of Sanlam Limited and provided life insurance, pension, and investment products in the United Kingdom.

Philip A Knight was Pensions Manager to the company, was involved with setting up the pension scheme and became the first member-nominated trustee of the scheme.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Merchant Investors Assurance Company Ltd 1976-1978 including a single file kept by Philip A Knight, Pensions Manager, regarding setting up of the retirement benefits scheme.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One file.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited on long term loan in August 2016 via the Pensions Archive Trust.

Allied Materials

Related material:

This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Added October 2016.