OUR APPROACH
Investment Management
Managing hedge fund strategies successfully starts with employing successful and highly experienced managers. Our managers have a wealth of experience and are specialists in their chosen markets. The hedge fund teams are small with a boutique, entrepreneurial mentality. Importantly, they are free to manage assets using their own styles.
The size of LGIM’s global index-tracking business gives our active managers almost unparalleled access to senior management of listed companies. As an example, our UK equity investments represent around 5% of the FTSE-All Share index and are therefore one of the largest investors in every listed UK company. This gives our managers a real advantage when conducting proprietary research as we can usually speak directly to the senior management of these companies on a regular basis.
Platform
LGIM provides an excellent platform for its hedge fund managers. It has a fully developed asset management infrastructure supporting one the UK’s largest asset management businesses. Our hedge fund managers can focus fully on managing assets while marketing, compliance, client servicing, administrative and other functions are dealt with by specialists in these areas.
Risk management is of central importance to the organisation. As an FSA authorised and regulated company managing assets on behalf of nearly 3000 institutional clients, we take our responsibilities seriously. Our separate Compliance and Risk Management departments oversee a fully integrated risk system which includes daily automated fund checks.
