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We develop gold-backed solutions, services and markets, based on true market insight. As a result, we create structural shifts in demand for gold across key market sectors.
We provide insights into the international gold markets, helping people to better understand the wealth preservation qualities of gold and its role in meeting the social and environmental needs of society.
Based in the UK, with operations in India, the Far East, the Middle East, Europe and the USA, the World Gold Council is an association whose members include the world's leading and most forward thinking gold mining companies.
BNP Paribas Securities Services
BNP Paribas Securities Services is Europe’s leading securities services provider and operates across the entire investment cycle. We provide post-trade administration solutions to sell-side and buy-side institutions and issuers. Our in-depth knowledge of the entire investment cycle enables us to partner our clients in their growth ambitions.
We offer Europe’s most comprehensive array of services and our network is one of the most extensive in the industry, covering over 100 markets with our own offices in 28 countries. We bring together local insight and a global network to enable our clients to maximise their market and investment opportunities worldwide. Banking licences around the world and our membership of industry bodies in all locations facilitate our clients’ activities.
Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments company, delivers asset management products and services designed to meet the needs of Sovereign, Central Bank and Governmental market investors. The firm has offices in Canada, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States. Portfolio managers can take advantage of the research of Pyramis analysts and may access the research of 433 analysts across the entire Fidelity complex. Pyramis offers traditional long-only equity and fixed income strategies, as well as alternative equity strategies to global clients and has assets under management of US$176 billion (figures as at 30 June 2011).
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BNP Paribas Investment Partners offers the full range of investment management services to both institutional and retail clients around the world. Central to the way we work is the concept of partnership - both in terms of how we behave as a family of companies and our relationships with our clients.
Over 800 investment professionals work across our network of some 60 investment centres, each specialising in a particular asset class or type of product. With total assets under management of EUR 540 billion as of 30 June 2011, BNP Paribas Investment Partners is the 4th-largest asset manager in Europe and the 12th-largest in the world (1).
BNP Paribas Investment Partners combines the financial strength, distribution network and focus on compliance of its parent company with the reactivity, specialisation and entrepreneurial spirit of investment boutiques.
Euroclear is the world's largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, derivatives and fund transactions. In 2010, the total value of securities transactions settled by the Euroclear group was EUR 526 trillion, representing 150 million domestic and cross-border transactions, while assets held for clients approached EUR 22 trillion.
Euroclear Bank serves 1,350 clients from more than 90 countries. Its clients include broker/dealers, commercial and universal banks, local and global custodians, central banks, supranational organisations and others involved in the issuance, settlement and asset servicing of domestic and international securities. With links to CSDs in 44 markets, Euroclear Bank settles transactions in 54 currencies. End of June, Euroclear Bank just opened a representative office in Dubai, to further strengthen its long-standing commitment to Middle Eastern clients.
Euroclear Bank is rated AA+ by Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings.
Franklin Templeton Investments - A Global Business
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Wellington Management International
Wellington Management is an investment adviser to more than 1,900 institutions in over 50 countries. With US$634 billion in client assets under management, we offer a broad range of equity, fixed income, alternative, and multi-asset investment approaches. We are a globally integrated community of investment professionals. Our most distinctive strength is our proprietary research, which is shared across the organization. We have offices in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
