Thames River Capital
Thames River Capital (UK) Limited is a Fund Management company founded in 1998 to provide specialist investment management services to professional investors and institutions. The company's two main areas of business are single-manager funds and multi-manager alternative strategies. The company has three fund ranges: single-manager hedge funds, multi-manager hedge funds and traditional funds. The Company also offers segregated mandates for institutions.
Man Investment Products
Man Investment Products has a track record dating back to 1983. The successful launch of over 140 alternative investment products has made us a leading force in the alternative investment market. Click here for more information
GRIFFIN Capital Management
Specialist managers in the Russian and Eastern European Markets.
Odey Asset Management
PCI Investment Management Limited
Award winning "Absolute Return" bias Fund Manager with Morningstar 5 star
rating in its PCIIM Asia Pacific Fund. Its investment model employs active
portfolio management and the prudent use of derivatives for portfolio
hedging with an aim to enhance portfolio return while minimizing overall
volatiliy. The Fund Manager can apply hedging strategies across its Asian
equities and Global Fixed Income portfolios. With over US$1.02 billion
asset under management as at Dec 31, 2002, PCI Investment Management is a
member of Pacific Century Insurance Holdings Limited. The company is a
sister company of PCCW.
"PCI Investment is not a traditional long-only manager. It successfully employs hedging strategies through the prudent use of derivatives to protect against market downside and reduce portfolio volatility. This absolute return investment approach combines traditional portfolio building with risk management. The Fund Manager will adhere to the investment discipline of limited leverage (max. of 25%) and no net-short position to avoid the higher level of risk commonly associated with hedge funds. Besides, its 4 PCIIM Investment Funds do not charge performance fees, ensuring that all investment returns accrue to investors. The flagship fund PCIIM Asia Pacific Fund is a Morningstar 5-star rated Fund with very satisfactory performance."
Facet Feeder Funds Ltd
Facet (CGF) Funds seeks to preserve the real value of capital and then to achieve long-term growth by participating in bull markets and preserving capital in difficult markets. Adding value, without adding risk.
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC is an internationally based fund management
company.
They manage investments for private individuals and institutions around the
world. Although their headquarters
remain in Aberdeen, Scotland, the company can be found around the globe,
with offices in the USA,
Singapore, Hong Kong, England, Ireland and Luxembourg.
With roots going back to the 1870s, Aberdeen has experienced rapid expansion in the last 15 years. Now quoted on both the London and Singapore Stock Exchanges, the company is one of the UK's largest independent fund managers.
Aberdeen manages over £20.6 billion (US$32.3 billion) in a range of retail and institutional funds on behalf of more than 450,000 clients.
Friends Provident International
Founded in 1824. Floated on the UK exchange in July 2001 and an instant FTSE 100 listed company. International credit rating company Standard and Poors rates many of their funds AA+. This is higher than many large sovereign countries. Assets around UK £28 billion. Voted as having best administration by Financial Advisers across the globe in 1997. Has some of the lowest charged products on the market. In mid 2002 Friends Provident took over Royal and Sun Alliance International.
Barclays International Funds
The Indexing Giant That Nobody Knows. The second biggest fund management group in the World with $619bn under management. Specialists and indeed pioneers in index tracking funds. A range of trackers available on traditional and not so traditional indices. MaxiTrack tracks a FT index of the World’s 100 largest companies. These funds represent great value with low entrance and minimal annual management charges. barclays.com
Royal Skandia International
Scandinavia's largest insurance company. Founded in 1855, operates in over 100 countries. Assets under management of £23 billion and annual premium income over £4 billion. Also used mainly by us for their portfolio bond services.
Pioneer Alternative Investments
Pioneer Investments is a global investment manager dedicated to growing and preserving our clients' assets. Our goal is to provide a full offering of asset management solutions tailored to a wide spectrum of investors. This goal is achieved through our broad range of products that includes mutual funds, single strategy funds, funds of hedge funds, managed accounts and structured products. Our core commitment to original fundamental research, quality investment opportunities and our global reach allows us to channel our asset management skills into our wide range of products. We currently have over €112 billion in assets under management.
We have been successfully managing investors' money since 1928. Our proven experience means that we have built long-term relationships based on trust with our clients worldwide. Our 'client first' approach means that today we are the asset manager of choice for a number of institutional and retail clients.
Barings
Baring Asset Management is a global investment management firm with offices, clients and business lines spanning the world's major markets. We provide asset management services in developed and emerging equity and bond markets on behalf of institutional, retail and private clients worldwide, and have £26.0 billion of assets under management.
Since the foundation of Barings Bank in 1762, the common thread linking our past to our present has been our ability to help clients benefit from changes in the markets. This tradition continues today as we invest client assets across global markets using the proprietary insights generated by a team of over 100 investment professionals.
By combining insights that cut across location, sector and asset classes, Baring Asset Management offers a unique world-view into today's economies and markets. Our investment professionals, based around the world in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Boston, combine this informed perspective with local knowledge and presence to seek out investment opportunities with the potential to perform well and deliver the returns investors demand.
Today, Baring Asset Management operates as a subsidiary of MassMutual, a leading diversified financial services organisation.
Funds under management as at 30 September 2007.
Scottish Life International
Scottish Life International was launched in 1996 and is now part of the Royal London Group. We have grown rapidly in size and now have funds under management of around $1.1 billion worldwide, as at 31 December 2005. Scottish Life International, which is based in the tax-efficient environment of the Isle of Man, has already received many awards for product innovation, service and performance, illustrating our competitive edge.
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Charlemagne Capital
Charlemagne Capital offers investors a blend of both experience and expertise in emerging market investment management.
We manage investments through three core strategies: Public Equity, Private Equity and Hedge Funds.
Most notably we have enjoyed considerable success in the specialist markets of Emerging Europe and Russia. Charlemagne Capital has a team of investment professionals dedicated to this region. As standard reforms continue and European integration draws nearer, the region is seeing increasing capital in-flows.
Miton Optimal Asset Management
Established in 2005 MitonOptimal is the merger of two successful investment houses combining extensive global research capabilities and an exceptional track record in investment management. The combined group specialises in adaptive asset allocation and has a focus on delivering strong absolute returns and offers an innovative range of multi manager funds, including alternative investments.
MitonOptimal's fund management team has a wealth of fund management experience accumulated over the last 25 years and has won numerous awards. The asset allocation approach is coupled with a rigorous fund selection process, with MitonOptimal's team having access to the top specialist fund managers in the world. The dual approach of dynamic asset allocation and top fund selection is blended within a series of multi manager funds covering the full risk spectrum from very cautious to aggressive growth and all are fine tuned to optimise the best trade off between risk and return.
With offices in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Hong Kong and affiliates throughout Europe, MitonOptimal is able to service clients on a global basis and has an approachable fund management team keen to work with strategic partners.
Castlestone Management
Castlestone Management is an independent financial advisory firm offering a broad range of traditional and hybrid alternative investments to financial intermediaries, institutions, private banks, life companies and their clients globally.
Founded as a Family Office in 1996, Castlestone has developed a unique expertise in structuring investment products utilizing an array of financial assets across global markets. Castlestone currently employs 43 professionals and manages 22 funds – with assets under management of approximately $833.95 million.
Castlestone Management’s headquarters are in New York. It has offices also in London, Europe, South Africa, Mid-East and Asia.
Castlestone Management is regulated by the B.V.I. Financial Services Commission and in the United Kingdom is authorized and regulated by the FSA in the UK Also authorized and regulated by the FSB in South Africa. Registered in the US with the SEC.
Aurum Funds Ltd
Aurum is a privately owned investment management group focusing on alternative investment strategies. Aurum's investment approach is based on independent thought and objective research.
Formalised in 1994, Aurum is a culmination of over 15 years hedge fund investment experience by each of the firm's principals.
Aurum manages a range of 14 different fund of funds investment vehicles which provide access to some of the world's best hedge fund managers and strategies. Some of these fund managers may otherwise be closed to new investors.
The objective of Aurum Funds is to provide investors with capital appreciation whilst focusing on capital preservation, with the benefit of diversification between markets, currencies, countries and asset classes to spread risk and reduce volatility.
Aurum Funds have been nominated for and won awards for Best Performing Hedge Fund of Funds over 5 years on a risk adjusted basis, Most Innovative Fund of Funds and Best Newcomer Hedge Fund of Funds started in the last 12 months
Gross assets under management now amount to over USD 1.6 billion.
Eclectica Asset Management
Eclectica Asset Management was founded in 2005 by two former partners of Odey Asset Management. Eclectica are based in London and are regulated by the FSA. Hugh Hendry leads the the fund management team and is well known for his independent thinking. Their investment funds cover a global macro hedge fund to European and global agriculture funds.
FMG Funds
Fund Management Group (FMG) is a Scandinavian Fund management operation with offices in Norway, Sweden, UK and USA, with 15 employees and current AUM of around $ 700 million. The company began in 1989, initially as a family office allocating to single hedge fund managers and then in 1995, FMG put together the world's first Russian fund of funds and this was the start of sector/country specific fund of hedge funds in Hi Tech and then Bio-Med.
2003 saw the launch of the FMG Rising 3 (RIC) Fund, in which in the same month, Goldman Sachs came out with their BRIC report on the increasing consumer demands in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). Then the last two recent launches are what we consider to be the last real ?Investable Frontiers? a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Fund in 2006 and then 2007, the launch of a pure Africa fund of funds.
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