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At AllianceBernstein, we're proud to be on of the largest and most established investment managers, with over USD 800 billion in assets for investors around the world. Even more satisfying: our unified, research-driven platform ensures that clients enjoy the same powerful resources that we bring to bear for some of the largest institutional investors in the world.
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With about one trillion Euros of assets under management, Allianz Global Investors is one of the world's top five asset management groups – with access to more than 60 million clients around the globe. Providing products for all major asset classes and investment styles, covering all major financial regions, and catering to private and institutional investors worldwide, Allianz Global Investors follows one goal: to protect and enhance our clients' wealth.
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 £27.6 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 31 December 2007
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BlackRock is one of the world's premier providers of global investment management, risk management and advisory services, with $1.36 trillion in assets under management. The firm manages assets on behalf of institutions and individuals in over 60 countries, offering a range of award-winning products and capabilities in equities, fixed income, cash management and alternative investments.
The firm is truly global with a major presence in key global markets, including the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. A pioneer in risk management analytics, BlackRock Solutions services both BlackRock's internal asset management team and a wide variety of best-in-class external clients. Over $5.75 trillion in securities and derivatives are maintained on BlackRock systems.
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. As of June 30, 2008 the Asset Management business has approximately CHF 605 billion in assets under management and employs 2,761 people worldwide.
The Asset Management business offers products across the full spectrum of investment classes, ranging from equities, fixed income and multi asset class products to alternative investments such as real estate, hedge funds, private equity and volatility management. Credit Suisse's Asset Management business manages portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from governments, institutions and corporations to private individuals. With offices focused on asset management in 23 countries, Credit Suisse's Asset Management business is operated as a globally integrated network to deliver the bank's best investment ideas and capabilities to clients around the world.
Founded in 1983, GAM is a specialist asset management company. From offices in eight countries around the world we serve institutions, intermediaries and private clients. For intermediaries, we focus on providing leading fund of hedge fund, single manager hedge fund, equity, absolute return and structured investment solutions.
Each equity investment team manages assets according to its own individual philosophy and investment process. This ability to invest without compromise allows the teams to fully exploit their skills in equity markets on both the long and short sides. Our multi-manager team provides a comprehensive set of fund of hedge funds solutions, including both standard and customised strategy allocations, with a high degree of transparency.
GAM's distinctive investment culture and quality of investment professionals underpin our ambition to be the alternative and high alpha asset manager of choice. GAM is a company of the Julius Baer Group since 2005. At 31 December 2007, GAM has CHF 86 billion in assets under management.
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Gartmore is an independent, specialist asset management firm whose primary focus is the provision of high alpha and alternative investment products to a broad range of institutional and retail investors. Gartmore is a well established asset manager with offices strategically located in London, Tokyo, Boston, Madrid and Frankfurt.
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M&G was founded in 1901 as the financial arm of a British engineering company and revolutionised British finance in 1931 when it launched the first-ever mutual fund for the general public. Since that time the firm has concentrated on the management of investment funds and today M&G is one of Europe's leading fund providers with assets under management of €202.0 bn (as at 31 March 2008). Our European offices are located in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich, Milan, Madrid and Paris.
In 1999, M&G merged with Prudential plc, a leading international financial services group with more than 21 million customers worldwide and a market capitalisation of some €22 bn (as at April 2008). M&G also acts as the European investment manager for Prudential plc and manages investment funds for its institutional and retail clients.
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Pictet & Cie was founded in 1805. The Bank is wholly owned by eight Partners who are also active in the management of the Group. Pictet is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks with assets under management and administration totaling EUR 235 billion. Pictet's sole business is asset management and related services. The Bank does not engage in any commercial activities, thus avoiding any potential conflicts on interest.
The Pictet Group provides investment management services worldwide with an integrity and a dedication to client service established over two hundred years of tradition. With 19 offices worldwide Pictet prides itself of having a global reach. Pictet is considered one of the leading specialist investment houses in Continental Europe, managing assets for a wide variety of institutional and private clients.
Pictet's asset management expertise covers the areas of Private Banking, Institutional Asset Management and Investment Funds.
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Principal Global Investors (PGI) is a diversified global asset manager comprising of a team of around 500 investment professionals worldwide. The company manages over $248 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2007), on behalf of both institutional and wholesale investors. The PGI team seeks to add value to investors by providing innovative ideas that help drive superior performance.
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