GAM restructuring bearing fruit
According to GAM CEO, David Solo, the restructuring process is now largely complete and the results are evident.
According to GAM CEO, David Solo, the restructuring process is now largely complete and the results are evident.
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Zurich-based Gam Holding AG, parent company of Swiss & Global, reported a 5% growth in group assets under management to CHF116.8bn in the third quarter, as it benefited from positive markets and net new money in both operating businesses.
Gam Group has completed the acquisition of three quarters of absolute return specialist Arkos Capital SA, with the expectation its products will be distributed under the Gam brand by the end of the year.
Barclays and GAM have teamed up to launch a proposition based on alternative, quantitatively-run indices managed by Barclays.
The GAM Star Emerging Equity Fund is the company’s first long-only global emerging market equity fund to be run in-house.
Fund group GAM has announced plans to purchase Arkos Capital, a Swiss long/short investment firm with CHF664m in assets under management.
Gam and Barclays Capital have joined forces to launch a Ucits fund of quantitative indices with the aim of delivering consistent non-correlated returns in any market environment.
Fermat Capital is to run a securitised catastrophe bond fund on behalf of GAM as a diversifier away from equity and bond propositions.
GAM has unveiled a fund of Ucits III absolute return funds to complement its fund of hedge funds
GAM has hired Rory MacEwen from Barclays Wealth for its UK private client team.
GAM has unveiled the Star Keynes Quantitative Strategies Fund, a global systematic quant fund