An article in the June 1965 issue of this Bulletin reviewed the business of a wide range of financial institutions. The institutions discussed were insurance companies, pension funds, building societies, investment trusts, unit trusts, hire purchase finance companies, special investment departments of trustee savings banks and some special finance agencies. The article looked at the sources of their funds and the ways in which they were invested; and concluded by assessing their shares of the turnover in various security markets. It was written mainly around the statistics for the year 1963.
The financial institutions Part I