One River to acquire team and IP from LGT Capital quant unit

One River Asset Management has agreed to get the halfway personnel, intelligence property, and concern strategies from the Quantitative Investment Solutions (QIS) concern portion of LGT Capital Partners, a Swiss alternate concern manager.

The transaction is expected to beryllium finalised by mid-2026, upon which the acquired concern volition go a afloat owned subsidiary of One River and commercialized arsenic One River Switzerland.

continue arsenic One River Switzerland nether One River’s ownership.

LGT Capital Partners manages much than $110bn successful assets.

Through this deal, One River volition adhd the QIS division’s eight-member hedge money squad and instrumentality connected 2 established concern strategies, which volition beryllium rebranded as:

One River Dynamic Protection, a systematic multi-asset futures strategy focused connected agelong volatility with implicit 11 years of unrecorded data.

One River Systematic Macro, a multi-asset macro strategy with astir 10 years of way record.

One River Asset Management CEO, laminitis and CIO Eric Peters said: "One River is the starring systematic hazard mitigation steadfast for organization investors, and this acquisition advances that presumption connected each front. World-class talent, established strategies, and our archetypal European footprint - the incoming squad is simply a earthy hold of who we are and a meaningful measurement guardant successful what we tin deliver."

LGT Capital Partners volition support investments successful these strategies, amounting to implicit $900m successful assets nether absorption astatine the clip of transition.

Leadership changes accompanying the transportation see the accomplishment of Jean-François Bacmann arsenic lawman main concern serviceman for diversifying strategies, Pascal Spielmann arsenic president of One River Switzerland, Simone Villa arsenic main exertion officer, and Christian Jung arsenic COO/CRO for the Swiss subsidiary.

Stephen Prajna volition proceed to oversee systematic strategies astatine One River.

LGT Capital Partners managing spouse Pius Fritschi commented: "We person large assurance successful the QIS squad and the strategies they person built implicit the past decade. Partnering with One River ensures that the QIS franchise tin proceed to germinate wrong an situation built for systematic liquid alternatives. We look guardant to supporting this adjacent section arsenic a semipermanent allocator to the strategies."

Last December, Invesco partnered with LGT Capital Partners to connection multi-alternative backstage markets solutions for wealthiness and status clients successful the US.

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