Richard Jon Black

OMAM's fund investment strategy focuses on different financial markets and aims for high performance and absolute return investments. Their investments in financial markets are generally considered to be medium to long-term. OMAM believes investments should be held for a minimum of three years. They offer a range of OEIC funds such as single country and regionally-focused as well as specialized niche funds. They seek to spread the risk through investments in different funds tailored to meet their clients' investment objectives. As their clients' investment needs evolve, they offer the possibility of switching funds. OMAM's ISA provides diverse funds with wide geographical diversification such as single country funds, regional funds and global funds. They offer investors various investment approaches such as long-term capital growth, a regular income or a combination of both. In 2001, OMAM launched their first hedge fund. Their absolute return investments encompass a range of strategies and investment types constructed to meet the different risk and return requirements of investors.

LGIM is a risk-averse, long-term manager which leverages the research capabilities of the L&G group and follows both active and passive investment approaches to manage a range of investment products including equity index and global fixed-income strategies. They refer to their passive strategies as 'intelligent indexing’. The firm invests globally across major asset classes and actively exercises voting rights. They manage a range of specialist hedge funds invested in UK small-caps, Japanese equity and global high-yield credit.