Man Group

Man is a world-leading alternative investment management business and sponsor of the Man Booker literary prizes. It has expertise in a wide range of liquid investment styles, including managed futures, equity, credit and convertibles, emerging markets, global macro and multi-manager, combined with powerful product structuring, distribution and client service capabilities. Man’s funds under management at 30 June 2011 were $71bn.

The original business was founded in 1783. Today, Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100 Index with a market capitalisation of approximately £4.5bn.

Man Group is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Man also supports many awards, charities and initiatives around the world.

Why Man Group is supporting the Big Innovation Centre

"Founded in 1783, Man started life as a barrel maker, reinvented itself as a rum trader, evolved into a commodities broker and became ultimately the business it is today – the world’s largest publicly-traded alternative investment manager. Throughout this long history Man has innovated in order to stay close to its customers. Man formed an alliance with Oxford University in 2007 creating the Oxford Man Institute, a world-leading quantitative finance research facility.

This centre has brought researchers and practitioners together to explore new areas of research and develop creative solutions to real business challenges. It is in this spirit that we support the Big Innovation Centre in its work to create a global innovation hub."

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