Strategically Speaking
An emerging markets coup
01 May 2013
After a burst of acquisitive growth during its years as the investment division of Lehman Brothers, Neuberger Berman’s time as an independent asset manager has instead been spent redefining its...
Degrees of freedom
02 Apr 2013
It has been a busy Q1 for Artisan Partners. At the time of writing, the 19-year-old firm was on the brink of its IPO. Aiming to raise almost $330m with which to clear its loans, buy back shares and...
Emerging markets, changing world
01 Mar 2013
Julian Mayo, co-CIO at emerging markets specialist Charlemagne Capital, has a memory from the early 1990s that serves as a corrective to the idea of ‘de-coupling’.
The vision thing
01 Feb 2013
“Just look at that quality!”
Enjoying a Renaissance
02 Jan 2013
Renaissance Asset Managers (RAM) has had a great run since it was founded as part of Renaissance Group, the Moscow-based financial services firm, in 2003.
Focus and flexibility
02 Jan 2013
One can tell from the name ‘Alternative Investment Group’ that this is a more venerable fund of hedge funds, pre-dating the post-dot-com stampede: it’s not exactly ‘Google-search optimised’.
Boutique ambition
01 Dec 2012
Natixis Asset Management (NAM) might be less well known than other firms in the Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) empire, such as Boston’s Loomis Sayles or Chicago’s Harris Associates. But the...
Cutting through the noise
01 Nov 2012
“There is almost universal agreement that the world needs long-term investors and, indeed, that short-termism is bad,” says Keith Skeoch, CEO of Standard Life Investments (SLI), addressing a room of...
Institutional ambition
01 Nov 2012
It probably wasn’t planned this way, but Four Capital Partners was set up by Derrick Dunne and ex-Schroders UK equities managers Tom Carroll, Ted Williams and Chris Rodgers on the precipice of the...
Life on planet TOBAM
01 Oct 2012
Quantitative asset managers aren’t particularly noted for prioritising ESG matters.
Holding hedge funds to account
03 Sep 2012
Bond yields sit at historic lows, growth is sparse and equities aren’t cheap. The result: a search for yield in credit assets and for alpha in liquid alternative investments.
The implementation game
02 Jul 2012
Russell’s recent move to Seattle from its historic location in Tacoma, Washington, just a few miles to the south, had the inevitable effect of pleasing urbanite employees happy to work and live in...
Practising what it preaches
02 Jul 2012
As one of the world’s leading mezzanine and credit managers, Intermediate Capital Group spends every waking hour analysing, interrogating – and worrying over – the way companies manage their balance...
De-leveraging, beautiful and beastly
01 Jun 2012
Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha is famed as the world’s largest hedge fund, earning $13.8bn for investors in 2011 alone. But today, over coffee in a luxury London hotel, the focus for Bob Prince, co-chief...
On avoiding hostages to fortune
01 Jun 2012
There is no disputing Northern Trust’s powerhouse status in global custody and asset servicing in Europe. In the UK alone, a big custody contract was renewed by the London Borough of Hillingdon’s...
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