AB is a global investment management firm with $499 billion of assets under management and 45 years of investing experience. We're dedicated to meeting evolving client needs with an array of innovative strategies across asset classes. We aim to understand our clients' objectives in order to help match diverse investing goals with the right strategies for changing market conditions.
We offer a broad range of services in equities, fixed income, alternatives and multi-asset portfolios, as well as customized solutions. With 201 buy-side analysts and 146 portfolio managers, our investing teams share ideas and make connections across disciplines, geographies, asset classes and sectors. At AB, we provide forward-looking perspective, independent research and investment discipline across all asset classes, leveraging our extensive global footprint—to help keep our clients ahead of tomorrow.
BNP Paribas Securities Services is a multi-asset servicing specialist with
34 offices around the world covering more than 100 markets. This extensive network enables us to provide our institutional investor clients with the connectivity and local knowledge they need to navigate change in a fast-moving world.
As of 31 December 2015, BNP Paribas Securities Services had USD 8.8 trillion in assets under custody, USD 2.1 trillion in assets under administration, 10,381 funds administered and over 9,500 employees.
Awarded "Insurance Custodian of the Year" in 2015 at Custody Risk European Awards .
www.securities.bnpparibas.com
Muzinich & Co, founded in 1988 by George Muzinich, is an institutional asset management firm specialising in corporate credit. The company has offices in New York, London, Cologne, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Paris and Zurich. Muzinich currently manages USD 24.1 billion (as at 29 February 2016). Since its founding, the firm has focused on a relationship-based institutional business that stresses the importance of delivering superior risk-adjusted returns under a variety of market conditions.
To learn more, please visit www.muzinich.com.
Founded in 1912, Conning has offices in Boston, Cologne, Hartford, Hong Kong, London, New York and Tokyo. With a long history of serving the insurance industry, Conning supports institutional investors, including pension plans, with investment solutions and asset management offerings, award-winning risk modelling software, and industry research. Conning's risk management software platform includes the award-winning GEMS® Economic Scenario Generator, FIRM® Portfolio Analyzer and ADVISE® Enterprise Risk Modeler. Conning's software offers sophisticated risk modelling capabilities that provide insights for decision making, regulatory and rating agency compliance, strategic asset allocation and capital management.
Kames Capital is a specialist investment management business. From our offices in Edinburgh and London we manage €77 billion on behalf of UK and international clients – including pension funds, government agencies, financial institutions, wealth managers, family offices and financial advisers. They have capabilities in fixed income, equities, property, multi asset, absolute return and ethical investing.
Investment management is our only business, ensuring we have no competing priorities or distractions. We are truly active managers, with a high conviction approach to investing. We blend a top-down perspective with fundamental bottom-up analysis, and aim to outperform in a range of market conditions across business and market cycles. Only the ideas with the highest conviction are included in portfolios, while our strong risk culture ensures that we take the right level of investment risk on behalf of our clients.
Lombard Odier Investment Managers is the asset management business of Lombard Odier, focused on institutional investors, third-party distributors and financial intermediaries. Lombard Odier has always been wholly owned and funded by its partners who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the firm. This independent structure means that we are able to focus 100% on our clients rather than shareholders. And our size and focus means that we can respond with agility to market events.
Successfully exploiting the investment opportunities created by market dislocations requires skill and experience. We believe that to achieve this consistently over the long term also requires independent thinking and a specialist approach. For us, this specialist approach involves focusing only on those investment strategies where we believe that we can add real value for our clients. Our strategies fall into the following four groups below; Smart Beta, High Conviction, Absolute Return and Multi-Asset.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management, with over $405 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2016, is a client-centric organization dedicated to providing investment and risk-management solutions to a wide range of investors and institutions including corporations, pension plans, intermediaries, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, endowments and foundations, governments and consultant partners worldwide. With over four decades of asset management experience, our investment strategies span the risk/return spectrum across geographies, investment styles and asset classes, including equity, fixed income, alternatives and private markets. Morgan Stanley Investment Management offers its clients personalized attention, the intelligence and creativity of some of the brightest professionals in the industry, and access to the global resources of Morgan Stanley.
The mission of New England Asset Management (NEAM) is to be integral to the success of our insurance industry clients by providing investment management solutions through a team of skilled professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional client service.
Our insurance investment management solutions include asset management, enterprise risk and capital management, accessible capital and risk analytics, and investment accounting and reporting services.
Ortec Finance helps clients making better investment decisions. We provide insight into the impact of possible (investment) decisions, increase the transparency of the decision-making process, and ensure that our clients are in control. We do so through a combination of quantitative models, information technology and market knowledge.
At present, Ortec Finance has approximately 2.5 trillion euro in assets under advisement for a host of clients from Northern Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific: pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, asset managers, banks and real estate managers. In most of these markets we have been operating for several decades now, building up a long track record.
And we continue to build on this proven approach by constantly testing and perfecting our methods. Our quantitative models are based on the latest scientific findings, and we keep investing in new, innovative solutions. Because of this, we have built a solid reputation that allows us to face the future with confidence.
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