IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/140/SB01
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SIGNET FUND (BERMUDA) LIMITED: CORPORATE
Date(s): 1957-1984
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 0.02 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Signet Fund (Bermuda) Limited
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Incorporated in Bermuda on 30 January 1957 as an open-ended Investment Company.
Investment Department of Kleinwort Sons and Company Limited had a contract with Signet Fund (Bermunda) Limited, an open end fund managed by Bank of Bermuda, mainly for UK residents to invest in the USA and Canada. Kleinwort Benson Limited and later Kleinwort Benson Investment Management Limited acted as their investment advisor.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Signet Fund (Bermuda) Limited including incorporating act and bye-laws, annual reports.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in two series as follows:
CLC/B/140/SB01/01: Incorporating act and bye-laws
CLC/B/140/SB01/02: Annual reports.
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 City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: https://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section in 1999. Guildhall Library Manuscripts merged with London Metropolitan Archives in 2008.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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 March 2018.