Invesco Perpetual
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The fund management company Invesco Perpetual was founded by Sir Martyn Arbib, one of the UK's wealthiest financiers and a major donor to the Conservative Party.
Arbib sold the company in 2001 for more than £1 billion, receiving £113 million in cash and shares worth an estimated £300 million.
Nuclear investments
In 2008 British Energy's biggest investor, Invesco Perpetual called for the nuclear power generator to merge with British Gas owner Centrica.[1] The proposal was confirmed in a Times article which also reported how the British 'Government wants the use the sale of British Energy ... as an opportunity to kickstart the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations'.[2]
People
Former employees
- Andrea Leadsom, who went on to become a Conservative MP in 2010, economic secretary in 2014, then energy minister in 2015
Lobbying firms
- Cicero held the account for a number of years
Resources
Notes
- ↑ BBC News ' BE backer 'proposes Centrica tie' 24th August 2008. Accessed 26 August 2008
- ↑ Pagnamenta, R. & Kennedy, S. (2008) 'Centrica issues British Energy statement'. 8 August 2008. Accessed 26 August 2008
