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Australian Mutual Provident Society (1849 - 1998)

From
1849
Sydney, New South Wales
To
1998
Functions
Finance and Insurance

Summary

Established in New South Wales in 1849. In 1998 the company demutualised and became known as AMP Ltd.

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Timeline

 1849 - 1998 Australian Mutual Provident Society
       1998 - AMP Limited

Archival resources

AMP Archives

  • Australian Mutual Provident Society records, 1847 - 1986; AMP Archives. Details

Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, (formerly Archives of Business and Labour)

  • Mackenzie James Wilson records, 1932 - 1988, Z585; Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, (formerly Archives of Business and Labour). Details

Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Hobart, (formerly Archives Office of Tasmania)

  • Australian Mutual Provident Society records, 1867 - 1972, NG 1699; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Hobart, (formerly Archives Office of Tasmania). Details

University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections, (also known as Special and Rare Collections, University of Tasmania Library)

  • Australian Mutual Provident Society records, 1857 - 1906; University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections, (also known as Special and Rare Collections, University of Tasmania Library). Details

Published resources

Books

  • AMP Jubilee Report, AMP Society, Sydney, 1899. Details
  • The record of the diamond jubilee celebration of the Australian Mutual Provident Society 1849-1909, AMP Society, Sydney, 1909. Details
  • Jubilee of the South Australian Branch, Australian Mutual Provident Society, Adelaide, 1922. Details
  • Seventy-five years of progress: Australian Mutual Provident Society 1849-1923, AMP Society, Sydney, 1924. Details
  • Jubilee of the Western Australian Branch 1884-1934, The Society, Perth, 1935, 16 pp. Details
  • Souvenir issued as a brief record of achievement and to commemorate the opening of the Society's new building in Adelaide, Adelaide, 1936, 19 pp. Details
  • A business romance: the birth and progress of the A.M.P. Society, The Society, Sydney, 1936, 28 pp. Details
  • A.M.P. centenary 1849-1949: the largest mutual life assurance office in the British Empire celebrates its first century, The Society, Sydney, 1949, 19 pp. Details
  • Blainey, Geoffrey, A history of the AMP, 1848-1998, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, New South Wales, 1999, 352 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anderson, M.J., 'The archives of the AMP Society', Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 1, no. 8, 1960, pp. 1-6. Details
  • Keneley, M.J., 'In the Service of the Society: the labour management practices of an Australian Life Insurer to 1940', Business History, vol. 48, no. 4 (Oct 2006), 2006, pp. 529-550. Details
  • Keneley, M.J., 'Monitoring and motivating outworkers: the case of the AMP and the sale of industrial insurance', Labour History, vol. 49, no. 3, 2008, pp. 319-340. Details
  • Keneley, M.J., 'Organisational capabilities and the role of routines in the emergence of a modern life insurer: The story of the AMP', Business History, vol. 51, no. 2, 2009, pp. 248-267. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 1 December 1999, Last modified: 14 October 2010