ROYAL LONDON ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD

The Royal London Asset Management is a UK investment company that was founded in 1987. The company operates as a subsidiary of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, the UK’s largest mutual insurance company, and is one of UK’s leading fund management companies. Royal London Asset Management, RLAM for short, was spun out of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society when its parent company decided to separate out its investment department into an investment management subsidiary to be able to provide its products and services to a wider client base. The company found its first external client in 1990 and would have rapid growth through the 1990s, acquiring United Assurance, Scottish Life, and Union Discount’s cash management business, which was renamed Royal London Cash Management, allowing the company to reach approximately $40 billion in total assets under management by 2004. RLAM would then grow both organically and through mergers, acquiring the Cooperative Asset Management in 2014. The company today has over $135 billion in total assets under management. It invests its funds across all major asset classes, including growth stocks, government bonds, corporate bonds, overseas equity, and properties. The company provides its services to multi-managers, universities, government entities, wealth managers, and financial advisors and currently manage assets “on behalf of more than 150 institutional pension funds.” The firm utilizes a top down economic and sector analysis with a fundamental and quantitative based bottom-up stock selection in order to manage its equity portfolios, researching its methods both in house and externally. Its current team includes over 70 investment professionals based out of the company’s London and Wilmslow offices. Some of its notable funds include its Sterling Extra Yield Bond, Ethical Bond, Sterling Credit, and UK Equity Income A, all of which have won awards in recent years. RLAM was also the UK fixed income manager of the year in 2014.