OLD MUTUAL ASSET MANAGERS UK LTD

Old Mutual Asset Managers UK LTD is, as its name suggests, an investment management firm based out of London. The company operates as a geographically focused investment arm of the Old Mutual Group, which has a combined total of over 50 thousand employees and 16 million customers. Old Mutual can trace its history as far back as 1845 from its origins in South Africa, growing through both organic means and strategic acquisitions to its current form today. Old Mutual Asset Managers UK itself has over 100 employees with approximately over $7.5 billion in total managed assets which are spread across 26 accounts. The firm caters mainly to pooled investment vehicles, which alone makes up approximately two thirds of its total clientele, and also caters to corporations and other businesses and pension and profit sharing plans. The group itself has a global strategy with specific regional focuses; Old Mutual strives to be the “leading and most trusted financial services Group through driving increased alignment between Old Mutual South Africa, Nedbank and Mutual Federal” in South Africa and becoming an “African Financial Services Champion” in the rest of the continent as well as building the “best Retail Investment business through growing and transforming Old Mutual Wealth” in the UK and continuing to grow its presence in the US. The firm focuses on operating within its capital and risk requirements and has a 15% return on investment as one of its strict criteria for keeping businesses within the group. Old Mutual Asset Managers UK invests most heavily in the technology sector, which alone makes up almost a fifth of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the services, health care, financial, consumer noncyclical, energy, basic materials, and consumer cyclical sectors, among other sectors to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing amount allocated.