All Strategically Speaking articles – Page 6

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    Strategically speaking: Terra Firma Capital Partners

    September 2015 (Magazine)

    “The private equity industry is in the midst of a far-reaching structural change that is leading to a bifurcation of the industry,” says Guy Hands, chairman and chief investment officer of Terra Firma

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    Strategically speaking: Oaktree Capital Management

    July / August 2015 (Magazine)

    Howard Marks is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, known in the investment community for memos to clients which detail distressed debt, credit and other investment strategies, insights into the economy, as well as for his distinctive investment philosophy

  • Stan Beckers
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    Strategically speaking: NN Investment Partners

    June 2015 (Magazine)

    The rebranding of ING Investment Management, a well-recognised name in European asset management, is the epilogue to an intricate story that began during the financial crisis of the late 2000s

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    Strategically speaking: Astellon Capital Partners

    May 2015 (Magazine)

    Responding to a reporter’s question about what he most feared could blow his government off-course, the British prime minister Harold Macmillan is supposed to have said: “Events, dear boy, events.”

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    Strategically speaking: Kames Capital

    April 2015 (Magazine)

    Edinburgh-based Aegon Asset Management UK made a nod to its home city when it changed its name to Kames Capital in 2011

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    Strategically speaking: Candriam

    March 2015 (Magazine)

    “It was difficult to find a name,” recalls Candriam CEO Naim Abou-Jaoudé, a year after Dexia Asset Management needed a rebrand for its acquisition by New York Life Investments. “All the good names are taken!” 

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    Strategically speaking: Thriving on independence

    February 2015 (Magazine)

    “Our life at AXA was very good,” concedes Ardian’s Vincent Gombault, one year since the private equity firm completed its management buyout of a 52% stake from the insurance giant.

  • Anne Richards, CIO and head of EMEA, Aberdeen
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    Strategically speaking: Aberdeen Asset Management

    January 2015 (Magazine)

    The timing of Aberdeen Asset Management’s £600m (€757m) acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) at the start of 2014 could not have been better. 

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    Strategically speaking: Grandmaster Capital Management

    December 2014 (Magazine)

    “Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position,” advised Hungarian chess Grandmaster Pal Benko. “Use all your time and make good moves.”

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    Strategically speaking: Assicurazioni Generali

    December 2014 (Magazine)

    It has been just over two years since Generali CEO Mario Greco took the reins of a company whose governance was in disarray, and whose performance was reflected in a loss of almost 75% of its stock-market value. His appointment immediately stemmed those losses, and the market has since been proved right.

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    Strategically speaking - Majedie Asset Management: Global, naturally

    November 2014 (Magazine)

    Before this year, Majedie Asset Management had rolled out just five products since it was established in 2002 – one of which was a concentrated version of another. By those standards, 2014 has seen riotous activity, with the summer launches of a US equities fund and two global funds adding to the existing line-up of UK equity and global long/short funds.

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    Experience, leveraged

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    Babson Capital immediately springs to mind for institutional investors around the world seeking global fixed-income managers, but that is a key goal for CEO Tom Finke. Having raised $5bn (€3.9bn) from European investors alone in 2013 it certainly looks well-positioned to one day be ranked among the market leaders. 

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    Three years of the 300

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    Liam Kennedy spoke to Alan Brown and Saker Nusseibeh, two architects of the 300 Club of investment professionals who seek to challenge mainstream investment practice

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    Nobody's fool

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Strategically Speaking - Greenlight Capital

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    Success assured

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    When Russell Büsst was coaxed from Amundi in 2011 to head Conning’s expansion into Europe, he had three objectives: break even and hit $10bn (€7.38bn) under management within three years; use the firm’s insurance-industry relationships as a platform to build the pan-European business; and balance property-and-casualty (P&C) with life-and-pensions (L&P) assets. 

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    An artisan with solutions

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    Where one still finds asset managers attached to banks, the former tend to be junior partners. Not so at William Blair, whose founder always had an ambition both to finance and invest in small growth companies from day one in 1935.

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    Performance built on research

    May 2014 (Magazine)

    Unigestion’s investment principles tell us that it is “not swayed by short-term trends or techniques which are in vogue”. At first glance that might seem a bit rich, considering its reputation for minimum-variance equities – about as “in vogue” as it gets.

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    Global expectations

    April 2014 (Magazine)

    “What makes businesses interesting is how they adapt to a global changing world,” declares John Calamos, founder, chairman, CEO and co-CIO of Calamos Investments. Having set up the firm in 1977, listed it on Nasdaq in 2004 and reached an AUM peak of $49bn (€36bn) in 2007, he is now overseeing a transformation that he intends will take it on a journey from a predominantly US focussed firm to a global fund management company.

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    Cautious, Swiss and international

    April 2014 (Magazine)

    As an institutional manager and provider of institutional-type investment management services to private banks, including within its own group, Pictet Asset Management (PAM) clearly stands apart from the private banking fraternity.

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    Building bridges

    March 2014 (Magazine)

    They do not come any more Australian than AMP Capital. Its parent company started life as a mutual insurer in Sydney in 1849, and is today headquartered in the city’s first skyscraper, which it financed, and which stands on the site of AMP co-founder and pastoralist Thomas Mort’s wool store. Its commanding views of the famous harbour are the backdrop to board and client meetings.