爱马仕养老金管理彪终于获得一些回旋余地。久负盛名的英国机构,长期以来一直受惠于它的主人和大客户的BT退休金计划,为即将踏上一个雄心勃勃的五年扩张,旨在提高其能力和扩大其投资者基础。
Under the plan Hermes, with BT’s blessing, will invest £50 million ($99 million) to build up its technology infrastructure and hire new specialist investment teams with the aim of turning the genteel pension-asset manager into a cutting-edge, multiboutique investment house.
这样做将是新上任的CEO鲁珀特·克拉克,谁曾跑了爱马仕的房地产集团绝非易事。克拉克已经继承了进步的一个主要工作:爱马仕的另类投资策略,积极扩大由该公司的前高管明星,马克·安森开始。
克拉克现年49岁,加大了临时CEO七月安森后 - 谁只在2006年2月加入公司 - 宣布,他返回美国加盟总部位于芝加哥的Nuveen投资。在12月,三个月的搜索后,爱马仕宣布,克拉克将被永久占用了工作。
As part of its new expansion plan, Hermes for the first time will pursue a divide-and-conquer approach, creating a dedicated 35-person team to handle BTPS’s portfolio and freeing the rest of the investment staff to focus more closely on third-party asset management. Hermes, which currently employs 153 investment professionals, manages funds for some 240 external clients — including pension funds, insurance companies, government entities and financial institutions — but BTPS still accounts for £37.1 billion of its £52.4 billion in assets.
毫不奇怪,BTPS受托人一直关注免得从自己的资产管理的第三方业务减损。外部投资者,同时,纷纷担心BTPS将主导爱马仕最好的,能力有限的资金。通过分离的管理团队,提高能力,克拉克希望平息双方的关切。
“如果我们要扩大我们的一流的投资产品,为我们所有的客户范围,我们只需要在我们的操作平台和资源分配方面更大的灵活性,”他说。“我们的结构的重点将是开发高阿尔法的产品和不断增长的第三方投资者的业务,但是,这并不意味着,我们打算把我们的眼睛离开球BTPS。”
过瘾它的主人的一种手段,爱马仕分配天才奈杰尔的LabRAM - 谁最近被提升为和替代战略的执行董事爱马仕 - 运行新的养老团队BTPS的任务。The 54-year-old commodities expert, who previously worked at UBS and Rabobank, has overseen Hermes’s burgeoning portfolio of alternative investments since fall 2006. The portfolio has more than doubled in size over the past two years as BTPS, under Anson, increased its weighting in alternatives to 15 percent of its portfolio, from 7 percent. Those strategies will still be the area of greatest emphasis going forward.
“球队认为我们已经拥有的广度是巨大的 - 现在我们要能够成长,”说的LabRAM。