摘要：The late George Ross Goobey made his family name forever synonymous with the development of modern investment practice. As manager of the Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund in the 1950s he was a pioneer in pension funds investing predominantly in equities. Indeed, he is credited with fathering the "cult of the equity". Interest in his activities has recently been re-awakened by the depositing, with the newly-formed Pensions Archive Trust, of a quantity of his private papers. As George Ross Goobey's writings were never widely or comprehensively published, there is a serious gap in the understanding of several important developments in this field.
On 27 October 2005, George's son, Alastair Ross Goobey, who is eminent in the investment field in his own right, looked at the way investment policy and practice has developed over the decades since his father first came to prominence, arguing that things had, perhaps, come full circle. Following his presentation, Alastair Ross Goobey was joined by Alan Herbert, Chairman of the Pensions Archive Trust, who described the aims and progress of the Pensions Archive.
