Universities: South East
(excluding Oxford Colleges and London)
Below is a list of the value of shares held by each university. The most recent figures generally refer to investments held in June 2008 in the top six UK-based arms exporting companies and the top eight American arms companies. The other figures mostly refer to shares held in March 2006 in the top seven US and UK arms companies at that time. The date of the information is provided in all cases.
The figures are taken from responses to Freedom of Information Act requests made to each university. Whilst the greatest care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of all the figures in this report, CAAT recognises the possibility of human error, and recommends that this fact be kept in mind when referring to the information.
Brighton University
No shares held directly
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £7m
Arms shares as % of total investments 0
Information refers to June 2008
To verify information, email:
Jan Lock,
Freedom of Information Officer
To register concerns, email:
Sue McHugh,
Director of Finance
Buckingham University
No UK arms company shareholdings.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) 0
Information refers to June 2006
Send an email to: C J Wilkes, Director of Finance
Canterbury Christ Church University
US arms company shareholdings
General Electric ?
Halliburton (now KBR) ?
Shares held indirectly through pooled funds. Information on value of investments not provided. No arms shares held directly.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £181,000
Arms shares as % of total investments ?
Information refers to June 2006
To verify information, email:
Robert Melville,
Assistant University Secretary
To register concerns, email:
David Leah,
Director of Finance
Kent University Endowment Funds
No direct UK arms company shareholdings. Shares may be held indirectly through broker managed funds.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £9m
Arms shares as % of total investments ?
Information refers to March 2006
To verify information, email:
Judi Mortimore,
Freedom of Information Officer
To register concerns, email:
Denise Everitt,
Director of Finance
Oxford Brookes University
No UK arms company shareholdings.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) 0
Information refers to March 2006
To verify information, email:
Freedom Of information Officer
To register concerns, email:
Paul Large,
Director of Finance and Legal Services
Portsmouth University
BAE Systems £20,380
Shares held through University investment fund managers.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £1.54m
Arms shares as % of total investments 1.3
Information refers to March 2008
To verify information, email:
Samantha Hill,
Complaints & Information disclosure Officer
To register concerns, email:
Emma Woollard,
Director of Finance
Reading University
No UK arms company shareholdings.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £4.7m
Information refers to March 2006
To verify information, email:
Lee Shailer,
Freedom of Information Officer
To register concerns, email:
David Savage,
Director of Finance
Royal Holloway, University of London
Cobham £103,518
Rolls Royce £135,075
Shares held in endowment funds. Other arms shares may be held in collective or tracker funds, managed by Kleinwort Benson and Aberdeen Asset Management, however no further information held.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £40m
Arms shares as % of total investments 0.6
Information refers to April 2008
To verify information, email:
Emma Crofts,
Archives and Records Manager
To register concerns, email:
Graeme Robinson,
Director of Finance
Southampton University
UK arms company shareholdings:
BAE Systems £138,847
US arms company shareholdings:
General Electric £58,945
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £16m
*Arms shares as % of total investments 0.9
The University has an informal policy that proscribes investment in compnies related to tobacco. However, all the funds in which the University invests have ethical restrictions that proscribe investment in companies in which 5% or more of revenue is derived from tobacco, military or firearm-related industries.
Send an email to: Malcolm Ace, Director of Finance
Southampton Solent University
No UK arms company shareholdings.
US arms company shareholdings:
General Electric £629,622
Shares held indirectly in the form of a trust fund with Invesco Maximum Income Fund.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £11m
Information refers to March 2006
Send an email to: Andrew Haslehurst, Head of Accounts
Surrey University
No arms company shareholdings.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £97m
Information refers to March 2006
To verify information, email:
Brian Barnard,
Freedom of Information Officer
To register concerns, email:
David Sharkey,
Director of Finance
Sussex University
UK arms company shareholdings:
Cobham £1,389
US arms company shareholdings:
General Electric £4,373
Total Assets Invested (all shares) £9,321,000
Arms shares as % of total investments 0.06
Information refers to May 2008
To verify information, email:
P. V. Baker,
Freedom of Information Officer
To register concerns, email:
Allan Spencer,
Director of Finance
University of Winchester
No arms company shareholdings.
Total Assets Invested (all shares) ?
Information refers to March 2006
To verify information, email:
David Farley,
Freedom of Information Officer
To register concerns, email:
Simon Cowhig,
Director of Finance
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