Strategic Alliance Proposed with The Beacon Group

SCHRODERS PLC
20 October 1999


Schroders  plc confirms that it approached The Beacon  Group,  LLC
about  the possibility of forming a strategic alliance in  the  US
but that discussions have been terminated by mutual agreement.


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