Legal & General Investment Management
Acronym
LGIM
Founding Date
1970
Legal & General Investment Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor. It offers strategies across the full range of asset classes, including equities, bonds, property, alternatives, and cash, as well as multi-asset strategies tailored to the needs of institutional and retail investors. LGIM clients include sovereign wealth funds, pension schemes, wealth managers, and other professional investors.
- Assets under management: £1.2 trillion (as of December 31, 2019)
- In addition to having a leading position in the UK, LGIM has selectively expanded into new markets across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the US.
- LGIM is one of the world’s leading providers of index fund management.
- Some of the key industry awards received by LGIM in 2019 are:
- Passive Manager of the Year (Irish Pension Awards)
- Best Multi-Asset Group (RSMR Awards)
- Index Provider of the Year (Pensions Age)
- Pensions Communications Award (Pensions Age)
- Fiduciary Manager of the year (UK Pension Awards)
- Risk Reduction Provider of the year (UK Pension Awards)
- Best ESG Manager (Corporate Adviser Awards)
- Wellbeing initiative of the Year (WSB Awards)
- Investment Innovation of the year (European Pension Awards)
- Master Trust Offering of the Year (European Pension Awards)
- Property Manager of the Year (Portfolio Adviser Awards)
- Multi-Asset Fund group of the year (Professional Adviser Awards)
- Passive Investment Group (FT Adviser 100 club)