Church of England and its investments

zedyy

The Church's major shareholdings as of 2007 (value in £ millions):

Royal Dutch Shell 179.4
BP 144.3
Vodafone 133.7
HSBC 125.6
GlaxoSmithKline 87.2
Rio Tinto 70.7
Royal Bank of Scotland 59.3
Legal & General All Stocks Gilt Fund 58.7
Capital International
Emerging Markets Fund 55.3
Anglo American 53.3
BG 53.2
Fidelity Institutional
Emerging Markets Fund 52.1
Tesco 48.0
BHP Billiton 47.5
AXA Global Emerging Markets Fund 47.2
Astra Zeneca 43.3
Barclays 40.4
Lloyds TSB 35.8
HBOS 34.5
Xstrata 33.2
Standard Chartered 32.7
Unilever 30.7
National Grid 27.0
BT 27.0
Reckitt Benckiser 26.1
Prudential 23.4
Aviva 23.2
Scottish & Southern Energy 19.5
Centrica 17.4
Cadbury Schweppes 15.9
Exxon Mobil 15.7
Nestle 14.9
Arisaig Asia Fund 13.9
Man 13.0
Old Mutual 13.0
Marks & Spencer 12.2
Microsoft 11.8
Reed Elsevier 11.7
Legal & General 11.6
General Electric 10.7
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 10.5
Roche 10.3
Genesis Emerging Markets 10.1

piggeh

What's that in %age terms ot total market cap? Thanks in advance

bo_drinker

No doubt they will still pass the begging bowl round come Sunday, and plead poverty to fix the roof the p ikeys robbed the lead from.

Kez100

If we all become members can we liquidate everything and distribute it like the building society carpetbaggers did?

squirrelchops

Well I can saely say they have another £375,000 coming to them!

My Uncle who never went to Church left all his money to the Church...bar some cousins who got a few thousand!!!

Me...nearest living relative...daughter of his dead brother whose Mum had to struggle to bring me up on her own.....nah nothing...not very Christian was it!!!!!! Bitter....not anymore just amused really at the hypocricy. anyway....

Reaper

The church hasn't been noted for its investment decisions in the past. During the last crash I seem to remember them getting it all wrong with both stocks and property. So if you've got anything on that list sell quick!

Cleaver

zedyy wrote: »

The Church's major shareholdings as of 2007 (value in £ millions):
...
Exxon Mobil 15.7
Nestle 14.9
Arisaig Asia Fund 13.9
...

Gay marriage, an opera about Jerry Springer and messages on bendy buses are all a strict no-no, whereas investing nearly £15 million in a company that is one of the most high profile users of slave labour, has sold millions of tonnes of contaminated animal feed to a variety of farmers putting whole villages on the poverty line and sells meths as baby milk (ok, not quite) is perfectly fine.

You gotta love religion.

zedyy

piggeh wrote: »

What's that in %age terms ot total market cap? Thanks in advance

Dunno chief