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First State Investments is an asset management business with specialist investment capabilities in Asia and emerging markets, global resources and global equities, property securities, emerging markets debt and both listed and direct infrastructure.
We manage investments on behalf of institutional investors and pension funds, wholesale distributors and platforms, financial advisers and their clients.
First State Investments is part of the international operation of Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM), the asset management business of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Group, and is managed within the CBA's Wealth Management division.
First State Investments currently manages £29.4 billion*, and has over 300* staff based in Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, New York, Singapore and Tokyo. The group's combined investment business manages approximately £87.7 billion* on behalf of investors worldwide.
* As at 30 September 2011
Lyxor Asset Management, subsidiary of Societe Generale Group, is a specialised provider of advanced investment solutions. We focus on offering innovative sources of performance anchored on research and risk management, with a maximum of safety, liquidity and transparency, adapted to our clients' needs and risk/return profile.
With over EUR 75.9 billion in assets under management, Lyxor has established itself as a global player in four major growing investment specialties: alternative investments, index tracking (ETFs), quantitative investments and structured solutions. More than a decade of experience provided Lyxor with an in-depth knowledge and insights into asset allocation strategy and research.
Employing more than 600 professionals, Lyxor is present in every strategic investment locations in the world.
*AUMs as of November 30th, 2011
The World Gold Council (WGC) is the market development organisation for the gold industry. Working within the investment, jewellery and technology sectors, as well as engaging in government affairs, its purpose is to provide industry leadership, whilst stimulating and sustaining demand for gold. Based in the UK, with operations in India, the Far East, Europe and the USA, the WGC is an association whose members include the world's leading and most forward thinking gold mining companies.
The varied activities of the WGC investment team cover the development of market insights, a rolling programme of fundamental and gold investment research, marketing gold as an asset class worldwide to investors and partnering with financial services institutions to develop new gold investment channels and launch gold investment products.
The WGC works with private and institutional investors, pension funds, wealth managers, financial intermediaries and family offices to develop better understanding of the case for gold as a foundation asset in portfolios, a portfolio diversifier and as a discrete financial and monetary asset class.
Fund Catalyst is a revolutionary new Web-based platform where hedge fund managers and investors collaborate, communicate and do business in a secure, regulation-compliant environment.
Fund Catalyst smooths and speeds the entire investment process from beginning to end.
It's the essential tool for managers and investors alike - increasing assets under management for fund managers and making the investment process easier, faster and more efficient for investors.
Tangerine Investment Management Ltd
Litigation funding is a relatively new, but simple idea for investment. Since governments have withdrawn or reduced their support for public funding and in some jurisdictions have changed the law to allow third parties to provide finance to support legal action, several funds have come to market to raise money from investors to step into this gap. Their success is helped by the severe shortage of finance available to law firms from traditional lending sources.
The award winning Tangerine Investment Management Ltd manages 3 Cayman Island domiciled funds that provide finance to law firms or their clients for specific cases. Two of these funds lend money at a fixed cost that has to be repaid, win or lose, and the third fund invests in the case and shares the risk and the rewards.
Axiom Legal Financing Fund & Tangerine Legal Financing Fund are open ended funds that make short term loans to law firms for specific case types. The loans have two layers of insurance protection. Firstly the cases themselves are insured against the possibility of losing and secondly against the law firm defaulting on their repayment obligations to the Fund ensuring therefore that the Loan Capital is insured . The Axiom Fund launched in September 2009 and only lends to English law firms. It has returned 11% - 12% a year to the investor very consistently. Most of the loans it has provided are for professional negligence cases but it also finances divorce cases for high net worth couples. The Fund only supports cases which have a life expectancy of less than 12 months. The Tangerine Legal Financing Fund follows the same lending model and has recently been launched to make loans world-wide. As loans are expected to turn round in a year, these funds have very good liquidity. Axiom is denominated in Sterling but has feeder funds in most major currencies that are hedged to provide similar returns. Tangerine is USD denominated and also offers hedged share classes in most main currencies.
Tangerine Litigation Fund is a closed end fund that invests in the cases by providing finance at the risk of the fund and then taking a share of the final awards. Where possible, insurance is taken to recover costs if a case loses. A portfolio of cases is constructed to minimise the risk of any particular case. As the capital is drawn down by the law firms over the duration of the case, the fund can also make short term loans in the early life of the fund to maximise profits. The fund is targeting to return 200-300% over the expected 3-4 year life of the fund. Investors may then redeem their investment or chose to roll it over into another series/share class.
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC is an international investment management group, managing assets for both institutions and private individuals from offices around the world. Our house style is fundamental and process-driven. Our clients access our investment expertise drawn from three main asset classes: equities, fixed income and property, as well as alternative strategies. We package our skills in the form of segregated and pooled products across borders.
Burren Global Advisors is the investment adviser for Burren Global Arbitrage Fund; an Event
Driven hedge fund strategy. The strategy concentrates on hard catalyst, announced situations,
focusing on optionality embedded within corporate events, and seeking to maximise the
crystallisation of this value through any equity based product available. It exploits pockets of
market inefficiency, thus capturing and profiting from price movements across the entire timeline
of a corporate lifecycle.
Established in 2000, Cheyne Capital is one of the largest European alternative investment
managers by AUM. The London based investment management company has a total staff of 138
and approximately US$6.2 billion of net assets under management. The firm has investment
teams operating in 4 distinct asset classes: Corporate Credit, Real Estate Debt, Event Driven
and Equity and Equity Linked. Approximately 75% of Cheyne's assets are managed on behalf
of sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, banks and other financial
institutions. Approximately 15% is managed for family offices and high net worth individuals,
and the remainder is managed for funds of funds.
Commercial Intelligence (CI) was founded in 1987 by Michael Shone and is the market leader
in emerging market debt recovery. Our principal offices are in London, Geneva and Singapore,
with smaller satellite offices in Thailand, Sudan, Kenya, Malaysia and Ecuador. The company
comprises of 4 senior management, 6 legal and due diligence, 10 local field operators and 3
administration staff. As a whole the team boasts over 80 years of distressed debt management
experience.
Henley is in the business of identifying exceptional property and operating company investment opportunities for institutional and private capital investors. Henley's investment strategy is opportunistic and active, but also heavily risk-analysed, and risk-mitigated.
Our approach has generated exceptional returns for our investors since we founded in 2007. As a result, Henley has multiplied its investor base and assets-under-management over this period and is renowned within its market niches.
Henley focuses on three asset categories: UK commercial property, investment and development, UK residential property development, and global early stage companies. Our deal size "sweetspot" is in the £5m - £50m range. Our investors cherry pick investments on a deal-by-deal basis and invest pari pasu with Henley General Partner capital.
All our investors have to meet strict selection criteria. They are high net worth or institutional investors, sophisticated and experienced at investing in the assets that Henley presents.
ING Investment Management is a top global active asset manager. We provide a comprehensive range of investment solutions and services to our clients and partners. We manage assets for institutional clients, fund distributors and the ING labels.
ING Investment Management has approximately € 326* billion assets under management. Worldwide, over 3.200 professionals watch over our clients' money. We operate along regional lines with centres of expertise in Europe, Americas and Asia-Pacific.
ING Investment Management is the principal asset manager of ING Group. Against the background of ING Group realising its global ambitions, ING Investment Management has also expanded across borders. Nowadays we are active in 33 countries, including some of the world's fastest growing economies, such as China, India, Brazil and many Eastern European countries.
Poised at the convergence of traditional investment's liquidity and transparency, and alternative
investment's risk management and dynamic capital allocation-we are defining the future of
investment management by doing what we do best: giving our people the space they need to
do their jobs well; focusing on diversifying risk; hunting for returns not benchmarks to beat;
keeping an ever watchful eye for a storm on the horizon; and delivering a truly bespoke client
service. Welcome to the future of investment management.
Martin Currie is a specialist investment management business. From our headquarters in Edinburgh, we manage £5.5 billion (US$8.6 billion) in active equity portfolios for a global client base of financial institutions, charities, foundations, endowments, pension funds, family offices, government agencies and investment funds.
We are a private company, owned and managed by our full-time employees. We believe that employee-ownership confers stability, minimises corporate distractions and helps us to attract and retain talented people to the business. We are committed to remaining independent, and see this as critical to the future success of Martin Currie.
Across equities, fixed income, commercial property and multi-asset our focus at M&G is the same; to generate the highest possible returns for our clients over the long term. To achieve this, we draw on over 75 years of experience in fund management and on our resources as one of the UK's largest active investors.
We give our fund managers the freedom to back their convictions and implement their own investment strategies. They are all highly skilled specialists who think for themselves, refusing to simply follow the latest investment fashions. They each have individual fund management approaches, but all designed purely to deliver the best results for their clients' investments over the long term.
WyeTree Asset Management is an FSA authorized investment manager that specializes in
managing investment strategies related to the global residential mortgage and residential real
estate markets. It is backed by two large institutions: Challenger (Australia based life and funds
company with $25 billion in AUM) and Skybridge (New York based FoF with approximately
$8.5bn in AUM) as the seed capital provider. Founded in 2007, the company has approximately
$180mm in AUM.
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