Dispatches: Minding The Managers

Record ID: 121955
  • Title: Dispatches: Minding The Managers
  • Date: 3rd November 1993
  • Summary: Looks at the activities of Pension Fund managers,a small group controlling ÌøåÀå?600,000 and trading in stocks and shares in supposedly safe investments. DISPATCHES finds evidence of insider trading and other malpractice. The Canadian Stock Exchange,`the scam capital of the world',is dogged by scandal,deals in sometimes fraudulent ventures in tiny companies with `retainers' demanded by fund managers,and is the subject of a British Columbia enquiry. Britain's third largest local authority fund,the West Midland,has burnt its fingers in Vancouver. The fund refused an interview. Contributors include Bob Wilkinson,former director of surveillance at the Stock Exchange; Vancouver fund managers; Adrian du Plessin,consultant for the British Columbia enquiry; fund managers; Sid Platt of UNISON; a stockbroker; and a pensions lawyer.
  • Description:An investigation of the managers who run pension funds and who can mis- appropriate funds entrusted to their care.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:03/11/1993
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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