Man Group Assets Hit Record $270.9 Billion on Strong Inflows

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• Man Group's assets under management reached a record $270.9 billion at the end of Q3 (September 30), per a trading statement released Friday, up from $253.6 billion on June 30 and well above $213.9 billion a year earlier. The increase was driven mainly by $10.1 billion in net inflows and $5.9 billion in investment gains, with an additional $1.3 billion from other movements including FX, performance-linked leverage changes, private-asset distributions and realized gains, and proceeds recovered from CLO strategies.
• Long-only equity funds drew the most inflows at $5.8 billion, with AUM rising from $104.2 billion to $113.2 billion. Long-only bond funds saw $2.4 billion in net inflows (AUM up from $38.9 billion to $40.6 billion), and liquid alternatives (hedge-fund-style strategies) saw $1.9 billion in net inflows (AUM up from $92.9 billion to $99.7 billion). Private markets saw no net inflows or investment gains, with AUM slipping slightly from $17.6 billion to $17.4 billion.
• By broad category: long-only assets rose from $143.1 billion to $153.8 billion (net inflows $8.2 billion); alternatives including private markets rose from $110.5 billion to $117.1 billion (net inflows $1.9 billion). Investment-performance contributions: long-only equity +$3.3 billion, liquid alternatives +$3.0 billion, long-only bonds -$0.4 billion. Within sub-strategies, solutions ($38.4 billion), risk premia ($18.1 billion), trend-following ($9.4 billion) and multi-strategy ($4.4 billion) all rose, while multi-asset risk parity fell from $7.0 billion to $6.4 billion; external alpha rose slightly to $14.6 billion and private credit was flat at $14.1 billion.

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