Man Group plc

Type	Public company (LSE: EMG)
Industry	Financial services
Founded	1783
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Peter Clarke,[1] (CEO) Kevin Hayes, CFO (CFO)
Products	Investment products
Revenue	US$1,655 million (2011)[2]
Operating income	US$370 million (2011)[2]
Net income	US$211 million (2011)[2]
Website	www.mangroupplc.com

Man Group plc (Man) (LSE: EMG) is a British alternative investment management business. It provides a range of funds for institutional and private investors globally.^[3] The company manages about US$68 billion (January 2011) and employs around 1,700 people in 15 locations worldwide.^[4]

Man’s headquarters are at Riverbank House in London, where it is listed on the London Stock Exchange.^[5] It also has offices in the Bahamas, Chicago, Dubai, Dublin, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Miami, Montevideo, New York, Rotterdam, Singapore, Sydney, Switzerland, Tokyo, and Toronto.^[3] It is a component of the FTSE 100 Index.^[6]

History[link]

The company was founded in 1783, by James Man, a barrel maker.^[7] The following year the company secured the contract to supply the Royal Navy with the rum for its daily “rum tot,” a tradition under which all sailors were allocated a daily ration of rum.^[7] (This tradition continued until 1970, with Man holding the contract throughout the entire period.) In 1860 Edward Desborough Man and Fredrick Man (grandsons of James Man) gave their initials to the name of the company, ED & F Man.^[7] Today, ED & F Man operates separately as a commodities trading business.

The company moved into rum and sugar broking, and then later expanded into other commodities such as coffee and cocoa. Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, financial exchanges became established for hedging commodity exposures and grew rapidly over the ensuing decades. Man became a major market participant; and the firm’s twentieth century partners established the company as a broker to third parties.

The physical commodity exchanges, where much of the world’s trading was done were also changing significantly. Increasingly, throughout the 1970s, financial instruments were traded, bringing new participants and increased volumes. Man was a broker to some of these traders, many of whom were trying to use the markets to make a return on price movements, rather than simply attempting to protect themselves against the uncertainties inherent to trading. Man became a partner in 1983 with one of these new money management firms, Mint, which was based in New Jersey.

This venture prompted a move into financial services, which the company increasingly concentrated on. In 2000, the commodity trading companies went private^[8] with the result that Man became exclusively a financial services company. The demerger and flotation of its brokerage business renamed as MF Global on the New York stock exchange in 2007^[9] moved the company into its present form, as an investment management business, within the alternative (sometimes called “non-traditional”) fund management industry, principally hedge funds. According to Institutional Investor magazine, its hedge funds have a combined $54.2 billion in assets under management.^[10]

On 17 May 2010, the company announced the acquisition of the New York listed hedge fund GLG partners for $1.6 billion.^[11] GLG’s top executives, Noam Gottesman, Emmanuel Roman and Pierre Lagrange all received shares for their stakes in GLG, subject to a three year lock-in. Roman was subsequently named as chief operating officer of the combined entity. As of 30 September 2010 the Man Group had $63 billion of Assets Under Management.^[12] On Tuesday 22 March 2011 – Man Group announced it was selling its stake in Bluecrest Group making a £250million profit.^[13]

Madoff fraud[link]

In December 2008, Man Group revealed it had invested $360 million in Bernard Madoff's ponzi schemes on behalf of their clients through Man Group's RMF fund of funds.^[14]

Business model[link]

Man Investments operates through three internal and semi-autonomous money managers.

These divisions have key centres in the UK, Switzerland, Asia and the USA.

Mergers and acquisitions[link]

Corporate responsibility[link]

In June 2007, Man sponsored a joint venture with the University of Oxford, the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. Man’s initial financial commitment was £13.75 million, one of the largest single donations to a British higher education institution in recent years.^[24]

Man is a member of the FTSE4Good Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.

The company was ranked 7th on the CNBC European Business magazine of the Global Top 100 Carbon Pioneers^[25] and is a registered carbon-neutral company.

Man supports various awards, charities and initiatives around the world, including sponsorship of the Man Booker Prize,^[26] Man Booker International Prize^[27] and Man Asian Literary Prize,^[28] as well as the Man Group International Climate Change Award.^[29]

See also[link]

Companies portal

• Hedge Fund
• Man Booker Prize
• Man Booker International Prize
• Man Asian Literary Prize

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Jenkins, Alan C., 1989, The House of Man, London, UK: Rainbird Publishing. ISBN 0-09-995370-6

External links[link]

• Official site
• Man Investments

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