Seeking Superior Performance
Our approach is based around developing the best investment talent within a collaborative environment. Our fund managers are unconstrained by any house view. We believe this ‘autonomous collaboration’ and open sharing of ideas is the core of our culture and competitive advantage. It results in a diverse range of expert opinion coupled with independent investment ideas.
Technology tools and our trading floor environment put investment teams in constant contact with each other and encourage teams to share insights with each other. We believe this improves the quality of each and every team’s decisions and enhances our clients’ returns.
Safeguarding our clients' interests
Man GLG benefits from Man Group’s robust infrastructure, financial stability and centralised support functions. This allows our investment professionals to concentrate on their strengths, namely investment management and research, supported by the strong, comprehensive and centralised infrastructure of Man Group.
Given our focus on recruiting and developing leading industry talent, it is important that our managers have a highly robust and advanced platform on which to trade. As such, we have developed proprietary IT and trading platforms, designed to allow our managers to fully express their investment convictions in a highly efficient and timely manner.
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Man GLG is a signatory of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment and is an experienced manager of sustainability focused investment strategies. By leveraging the experience gained from managing dedicated sustainability mandates, a number of Man GLG disciplines are attaining and aspiring to higher ESG standards.
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The Hedge Fund Standards were drawn up in 2007 to address key issues relating to the hedge fund industry and best practice, covering the areas of disclosure, valuation, risk management, fund governance and shareholder conduct. Man is a founding signatory of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) which was fully established in 2008 as a guardian to the Standards with the goal of creating a framework for promoting integrity, transparency and good governance in the industry.
We employ a "Three Lines of Defence" model to ensure our managers have the flexibility to trade effectively but within an appropriately controlled environment. This creates clear accountability and oversight, mitigation of risks and seeks to ensure that we manage our clients’ assets in a safe and secure environment.
More broadly, and something we consider central to our business, a culture of compliance is something we instil into all personnel. We are committed to running the business to the highest standards, and for the long term.
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1st Line of Defence
Man GLG Management
- Set overall strategic objective
- Ensure that risk is managed to an appropriate level
- Identify and act upon any operational issues
2nd Line of Defence
Risk & Finance Committee
Risk & Compliance
- Utilise sophisticated tools to monitor trader behaviour
- Implement key processes and controls necessary for Man GLG to adhere to regulatory requirements
3rd Line of Defence
Audit & Risk Committee
Internal Audit
- Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes
- Report to the CFO and independently to the Audit & Risk Committee
We have deep relationships with a diverse range of global clients, ranging from large institutional investors to financial intermediaries.
Importantly, our clients have a dedicated relationship manager who assists them through every step of the investment process and provides ongoing support thereafter.
We pride ourselves on providing our clients with both outstanding levels of transparency and additional insights through our thought leadership, webcasts and tailored risk reporting.
Effective risk management is central to our business. We are stewards of our clients’ capital and invest in the systems, people and controls to help ensure we take measured risks. As part of our risk controls, Man GLG has a dedicated Risk Committee that is responsible for setting internal risk limits, advising on risk development and enhancements, and considering firm-wide risks. The Risk Management team is independent of Man GLG and reports to the Chief Risk Officer for Man.
The Risk Management team is responsible for the infrastructure that monitors and controls relevant risks, and to ensure that risk issues are investigated and resolved in a timely manner. In addition to regulatory and mandate limits we monitor each strategy to ensure it remains within appropriate internal risk limits. The Compliance team will actively monitor each portfolio against pre-set constraints to detect any breaches of limits on a pre- or post-trade basis.
While we believe independent risk and compliance functions are critical for robust oversight of each portfolio we also instil a culture of risk management and compliance in each investment team and across the firm. Many of our investment strategies have additional risk management professionals in addition to the independent risk team.