Investec plc, a specialist bank and wealth manager, provides various financial products and services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers wealth and investment services, such as investments and savings, financial planning, and pensions and retirement services to private clients, professional advisors, charities, and trusts. The company also provides specialist banking products and services comprising private banking services, including lending, private capital, transactional banking, savings, and foreign exchange; corporate and investment banking services, such as lending, advisory, and treasury and risk management solutions, as well as institutional research, sales, and trading; and principal investments, property investment, and fund management solutions to high net worth and high income private clients, as well as corporate, private equity, government, and institutional clients. In addition, it offers nominee, leasing, debt issuance, property, financing, shipping, investment management, corporate secretary, insurance, merchant banking and stock broking, aircraft leasing, and retail credit services. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. Investec plc is a subsidiary of Investec Group.