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Today, the Capital organization has thousands of associates worldwide serving the needs of individuals and institutions. Our roots go back to 1931, when Jonathan Bell Lovelace founded Capital Research and Management Company as a research-based group focused on helping investors in the wake of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Two years later Capital became the adviser to the Investment Company of America, which would become one of the world's largest and most successful mutual funds. |
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| 2000s |
| 2009 |
Beijing office opens |
| 2008 |
Mumbai office opens |
| 2007 |
Capital International KK begins offering investment management services for individuals in Japan |
| 2006 |
The Capital organization observes its 75th anniversary |
| 2003 |
Capital begins offering investment management services for individuals in Europe |
| 2002 |
Capital International Funds web site launched for distributors and individual investors based in Europe |
| 2000 |
Capital begins offering investment management services for individuals in Canada |
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| 1990s |
| 1998 |
Toronto office opens |
| 1993 |
Capital International hired by its first client in Africa |
| 1992 |
Capital International launches first private equity fund; Atlanta office opens |
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| 1980s |
| 1989 |
Singapore office opens |
| 1987 |
Chicago office opens |
| 1986 |
Capital International launches the Emerging Markets Growth Fund – the first fund of its kind – when the International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank, wants a way for institutions to invest in developing nations |
| 1984 |
Capital International begins managing assets for Australian clients |
| 1983 |
Hong Kong office opens |
| 1982 |
Tokyo office opens – our first in Asia |
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| 1970s |
| 1979 |
London office opens |
| 1978 |
Capital Guardian begins managing non-U.S. assets for U.S. institutional clients |
| 1975 |
San Francisco office opens |
| 1974 |
Capital Group Private Client Services is launched; Capital International begins managing retirement plans based outside the U.S.; Washington, D.C. office opens |
| 1970 |
Capital International S.A. begins managing global funds distributed outside the U.S. |
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| 1960s |
| 1968 |
Capital Guardian Trust Company is founded to manage assets for U.S. institutional clients |
| 1965 |
The Capital International market indices (now known as the MSCI indices) are created – the first indices for non-U.S. stock markets |
| 1962 |
Geneva office opens, making the Capital organization one of the first
U.S.–based firms to have an office outside the U.S. |
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| 1950s |
| 1958 |
The Capital organization initiates the multiple portfolio manager system |
| 1953 |
Capital becomes one of the first U.S.–based firms to begin investing outside North America |
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| 1930s / 1940s |
| 1943 |
New York office opens |
| 1933 |
Investment Company of America, the first mutual fund of what will become the American Funds family, is acquired |
| 1931 |
The Capital organization is founded in Los Angeles by Jonathan Bell Lovelace. |
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