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The Australian Mutual Provident Society, a financial services and investment group founded in 1849 by Reverend Walsh, Thomas Mort and Thomas Holt in Sydney, Australia. Provides services to customers in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the Americas. AMP has £98 billion of funds under management.

Corporate Structure

• AMP UKFS
  • AMP London Life - second oldest pensions & savings company in the world
  • AMP NPI - previously Friends -later National- Provident Institution founded 1832
  • AMP Pearl - previosly Pearl Life Assurance Loan & Investment Company, incorporated 1864
  • Towry Law Group - Independent Financial Advisers
  • AMPLE (www.ample.com) - online portfolio management & ISA fund supermarket
  • AMP Banking - aiming to be a high-street bank(!)
• Henderson Global Investors
• International & Technology Ventures
  • Cogent
  • Virgin Money
  • AMP Banking
  • AMP Asia
  • AMP Europe
  • AMP New Ventures
• AMP Financial Services Australia & New Zealand

Trivia

AMP has over 17,000 employees worldwide, and more employees in the UK than in any other country.

The AMP Tower in Sydney is the tallest structure in the city, at 324 metres. It featured in the movie Mission Impossible 2.

The AMP Oval is the largest cricket ground in the Northern Hemisphere.

AMP outbid Coca-Cola to be the main sponsors of the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

The AMP Mantra: "Market Oriented... Committed to People... Teamwork... Integrity... Results Driven... Brains... Hu-man Brains....*"

*I lied about the brains