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“Cult of Equity”: Actuaries and the Transformation of Pension Fund Investing, 1948–1960

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Yally Avrahampour
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Abstract

This article examines the mid-twentieth-century transformation of U.K. pension fund investment policy known as the “cult of equity.” It focuses on the influence exercised by the Association of Superannuation and Pension Funds over actuarial and corporate governance standards, through actuaries who were members of its council. This intervention led to increasingly permissive actuarial valuations that reduced contributions for sponsors of pension funds investing in equities. Increased demand for equities required pension funds to adopt a more permissive approach to corporate governance than insurance companies and investment trusts, and contributed to declining standards of corporate governance.

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Business History Review , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , Summer 2015 , pp. 281 - 304
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2015 

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93 ASPF minutes, 17 July 1953, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

94 ASPF minutes, 15 Apr. 1954, 6 Dec. 1954, and 4 Feb. 1955, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

95 Black and Coffee, “Hail Britannia?”

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97 ASPF minutes, 17 Sept. 1954 and 6 Dec. 1954, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA; and 4 Feb. 1955.

98 Kempe to Hanks, 2 Sept. 1959.

99 Bedfordshire County Council (Superannuation) Bill, 23 Mar. 1954, House of Commons Session 1953–54, File CCV32/5, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Bedford, U.K.

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101 George Ross Goobey, “The Pension Fund Valuation Rate of Interest,” 19 May 1954, LMA/4481/01/003, RGC, LMA.

102 Ibid., 1.

103 Plender, That's The Way the Money Goes, 40.

104 ASPF minutes, 24 Sept. 1954, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA; George Ross Goobey, “Pension Fund Investments,” 4 Oct. 1954, ASPF minutes, 6 Dec. 1954, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA; ASPF minutes, 4 Feb. 1955; George Ross Goobey, “Pension Fund Investments,” Superannuation, Apr. 1955, 4.

105 G. Ross Goobey, “Pension Fund Investments,” 1955.

106 ASPF minutes, 4 Feb. 1955 and 5 Apr. 1955; ASPF minutes, 23 Sept. 1955, 19 Jan. 1956, and 6 Mar. 1956, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

107 On the recommendation, see G. Ross Goobey, “Review of Investment Policy,” 1; Ellis and Vertin, Classics, 253. In the memorandum to the trustees dated 4 June 1957, Ross Goobey repeatedly states that the decision to invest in equities was made eighteen months previously, namely, at the end of 1955.

108 G. Ross Goobey, “Review of Investment Policy,” appendix.

109 For 1957, see G. Ross Goobey, “Review of Investment Policy,” 12; for 1958, see “A Pension Fund's Policy”; for 1961, see G. Ross Goobey, “Pension Fund Investment.”

110 G. Ross Goobey, “Pension Fund Investments,” 1956, 34.

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112 G. Ross Goobey, comment on Gunlake, “Surplus or Deficit,” 10–21.

113 ASPF minutes, 22 Sept. 1960, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA; G. Ross Goobey, comment on Gunlake, “Surplus or Deficit,” 10–21.

114 Roberts, “Regulatory Responses,” 189; Bull and Vice, Bid for Power.

115 David Clutterbuck and Marion Devine, Clore: The Man and His Millions (London, 1987), 53.

116 AIT minutes, 13 May 1957, emphasis in original; AIT minutes, 18 Mar. 1957 and 3 May 1957, CLC/B/018/MS38449, LMA; Bull and Vice, Bid for Power; Clutterbuck and Devine, Clore; Cheffins, Corporate Ownership, 316.

117 There were earlier examples of entrepreneurs using similar tactics for the purpose of retaining control following an acquisition. See Armour and Skeel, “Who Writes the Rules,” 45–54; Cheffins, Corporate Ownership, 375; Hannah, “Shareholders' ‘Dog,’” 237, 244.

118 BIA IPC minutes, 10 Oct. 1955, CLC/B/017/MS29134A, ABI collection, LMA.

119 Bull and Vice, Bid for Power.

120 BIA IPC minutes, 12 Dec. 1955, CLC/B/017/MS29134A, ABI collection, LMA; ASPF minutes, 19 Jan. 1956.

121 On the ASPF, see AIT minutes, 18 Mar. 1957; on the AIT and the BIA, see AIT minutes, 21 Nov. 1955, 16 Jan. 1956, 21 Jan. 1957, CLC/B/018/MS38449, LMA; BIA IPC minutes, 11 Feb. 1957, CLC/B/017/MS29134A, ABI collection, LMA.

122 Roberts, “Regulatory Responses,” 194–95; Issuing Houses Association, Notes on Amalgamations of British Businesses (London, 1959), 2.

123 Kempe to Hanks, 2 Sept. 1959, 2.

124 ASPF minutes, 17 Sept. 1956, 22 July 1957, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA; Kempe to Hanks, 2 Sept. 1959, 2; on the payment, see ASPF minutes, 16 Apr. 1959, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

125 Kempe to Hanks, 2 Sept. 1959, 2.

126 ASPF minutes, 14 July 1960, 6 Apr. 1961, 19 Oct. 1961, 20 Nov. 1962, 17 Jan. 1963, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

127 Minutes of the first annual general meeting of the Investment Protection Committee, 19 Nov. 1964, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

128 Minutes of the second annual general meeting of the Investment Protection Committee, 19 Nov. 1965, LMA/4494/A, NAPF collection, LMA.

129 “Appointments: Mr. G. H. Ross Goobey joins board of Imperial Tobacco,” Financial Times, 21 Mar. 1963; see also cutting saved at CLC/B/018/MS38490, AIT collection, LMA.

130 Heywood, “Obituary.”

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