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Ignis Investment Services Limited
Company typePrivate
IndustryFinancial Services, Investment Management, Asset Management, Fund Management
Headquarters,
United Kingdom
Key people
Clive Bannister, Chairman

Chris Samuel, Chief Executive

Chris Fellingham, Chief Investment Officer

Tim Roberts, Chief Operating Officer

Jonathan Yates, Group Finance Director

Ian Paterson Brown, Corporate Development Officer
Websitehttp://www.ignisasset.com/

Ignis Asset Management is an asset management company with head offices in Glasgow and London. Ignis, formerly Resolution Asset Management[1], manages around £73.3 billion* of assets. *Source: Ignis at 30 March 2012 (including £10.3 billion of stock-lending collateral)

Ignis, which is the Latin word for fire or spark, merged with Axial Investment Management in November 2008.[2]

Ignis' parent company, The Pearl Group, changed its name to The Phoenix Group in 2010. [3]

In 2011 Ignis introduced a business unit structure covering six aras: Fixed Income, Equities, Real Estate, Advisors (a specialist alternatives fund of funds team), Solutions (Liability Driven Investment, Asset Liability Management and related risk mitigation) and Partners (fund management businesses operating in partnership with Ignis). [4]




Joint ventures

The Ignis joint ventures, Argonaut and Cartesian are 50 percent owned by their fund managers and 50 percent by the company.

Argonaut Capital Partners: [1] A European high alpha boutique set up as a joint venture between top fund managers Barry Norris and Oliver Russ and Ignis Asset Management. Argonaut Capital Partners have management control, owning 60% while Ignis has an equity stake of 40%.


Cartesian Capital Partners: [2] A UK equity boutique launched at the end of 2005. Cartesian is a 50/50 joint venture between investment managers David Stevenson and Andrew Kelly and Ignis Asset Management

Sponsorship

Middlesex County Cricket Club [3] Ignis Asset Management Women's 10K [4]

References