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= Merian Global Investors = Merian Global Investors is an international asset management company, headquartered in the City of London, United Kingdom.

The company manages mutual funds, an investment trust and segregated mandates across a wide range of asset classes, for clients including global and regional banks, private banks, insurance companies, multi-asset fund managers, family offices, wealth managers, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, financial advisers, and private individuals.

In November 2018, the company announced the listing of the Merian Chrysalis Investment Company Limited on the premium segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

History
The origins of parts of the Merian Global Investors business were formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s through the acquisitions and mergers of a number of UK stockbroking businesses, including Gerrard Group PLC, by the South African financial services giant, Old Mutual plc. Through the 2000s, the company was a subsidiary of Old Mutual plc, and traded under the name Old Mutual Asset Managers (OMAM).

In 2012, OMAM was merged with another asset management subsidiary of Old Mutual plc, Skandia Investment Group (SIG), to form Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI ).

In 2013, OMGI hired Richard Buxton from Schroders as head of UK equities. Buxton was subsequently appointed chief executive.

In the following years, the company announced a number of fund manager hires and fund launches. It also expanded its distribution footprint, opening offices in a number of key global financial centres.

In December 2017, OMGI’s parent company, Old Mutual Wealth (now Quilter plc) announced it had reached an agreement to sell OMGI’s single-strategy fund management business to OMGI senior management and funds operated by the global growth private equity firm TA Associates. As part of the deal, OMGI’s multi-asset business was to be retained by Quilter plc. The sale of the business completed on 29 June 2018.

In January 2019, the company announced that Richard Buxton had decided to step down as CEO, but would remain as head of UK equities. Mark Gregory, the former group chief financial officer of Legal & General plc was named as the new CEO of Merian Global Investors.

Ownership
Merian Global Investors is owned by members of its management team, including the firm’s most senior fund managers, the majority of other members of Merian Global Investors staff (either through direct shareholdings, or indirectly through an employee ownership trust), and funds operated by TA Associates, the global growth private equity firm.

The six fund managers who led the buyout of the company from its previous owners were Amadeo Alentorn, Richard Buxton, Ian Heslop, Daniel Nickols, Mike Servent and Richard Watts.

Name
The company’s name was inspired by the 17th-Century scientist, adventurer and artist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose renown as a polymath reflects the firm’s multi-faceted approach to investment; some of the firm’s fund managers view investment as a purely scientific discipline, while others see it, first and foremost, as an art. In homage to its namesake, the company adopted the tagline “The art and science of investingTM.

Offices and presence
Merian Global Investors is headquartered in London, where the majority of its employees are based. It also has offices in Zurich, Milan, Hong Kong and Singapore. In the Americas, the company distributes its funds through a partnership with The AMCS Group. In Taiwan, the company distributes its funds through Capital Gateway Investments.

Sponsorships and partnerships
At the time of the launch of its new brand identity in October 2019, the company announced that it had agreed to become the inaugural and sole principal partner of Shakespeare’s Globe’s summer season. The company is a long-term supporter of the UK-based national youth charity Leap Confronting Conflict.