Man
Group Company Information
About
The Man Group Company
The
Man Group can trace its origins back to 1783 when James Man first
established a sugar broking business in the City of London. The
Group operated as a traditional partnership for over two hundred
years and was engaged mainly in the agricultural markets of sugar,
coffee and cocoa.
Later,
two financial divisions were established, known as Man Investments
and Man Financial, offering services in asset management and brokerage
respectively.
In
October 1994 the Group floated on the London Stock Exchange (stock
code EMG). In March 2000, the Group sold its original agricultural
products businesses so that today it is a focused financial services
group, comprising a specialist fund manager and an international
broker.
Man
Investments is a leading global provider of alternative asset investment
funds. The investment funds use systematic trading strategies across
a diversified range of international markets as well as offering
fund of funds products. These are sold on both an individual basis
and through composite guaranteed structures.
Man
Financial, the Group's Brokerage division, is one of the world's
major futures and options brokers and commands a global financial
presence with offices in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, London,
Paris, Singapore, Taiwan, Sydney and Brisbane.
Today
the division provides agency broking and other related services
to a worldwide client base, which ranges from banks, 'CTAs', 'Hedge
Funds' and major industrial groups to individual private clients.
In October 2002 the Man Group plc purchased GNI Holdings Ltd from
Old Mutual plc, creating the worlds largest independent futures
broker. The acquisition also resulted in the Man Group plc becoming
a leading broker in the European CFD market.
Sugar
Quay
Lower Thames Street
London
EC3R 6DU
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