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BKS Investment Svc Inc is a Kansas City, MO-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Founded in 1994 with offices in Boston and San Francisco, Spectrum Equity is a leading growth equity firm that provides capital and strategic support to innovative companies in the information economy. The firm has invested in over 140 companies and is currently investing its eighth fund with $1.25 billion in capital. Spectrum partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build great information services, software and internet companies. Spectrum seeks to invest in companies which have defensible and sustainable business models with strong recurring revenue, significant operating leverage, and structural competitive advantages. The firm has a flexible approach to ownership and typically invests $25 – $125 million per investment, often representing the company`s first institutional investor. Spectrum plays a prominent role in helping its portfolio companies scale their business through senior management and Board recruitment, M&A, and sales & marketing optimization. Content contained in this profile and posted updates is not intended to and does not constitute legal advice or investment advice. Your use of this information in the posted update and materials linked is at your own risk. Spectrum Equity does not make any guarantee or other promise as to any results that may be obtained from using this content. No one should make any investment decision without first consulting his or her own financial advisor and conducting his or her own research and due diligence. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Spectrum Equity disclaims any and all liability in the event any information, commentary, analysis, and/or opinions prove to be inaccurate, incomplete or unreliable, or result in any investment or other losses. The specific companies identified in posts do not represent all of Spectrum`s investments, and no assumptions should be made that any investments identified were or will be profitable.
Man Group is an active investment management firm focused on delivering performance and client solutions through its five investment management businesses: Man AHL; Man Numeric; Man GLG; Man FRM and Man Global Private Markets. Man Group`s investment management businesses provide long-only, alternative and private markets products on a single and multi-manager basis, leveraging the firm`s robust infrastructure to provide a diverse range of strategies across investment approaches, styles and asset classes. The original business was founded in 1783. Today, Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.L and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. As at 31 December 2017, Man Group`s funds under management were $109.1 billion. Man Group also supports many awards, charities and initiatives around the world, including sponsorship of the Man Booker literary prizes.
Union Square Investment Co is a San Francisco, CA-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Founded in 1997, Marshall Wace is one of Europe’s foremost hedge fund managers specialising in global long/short equity. We have investment management offices in London; Greenwich, Connecticut; and Hong Kong. Marshall Wace LLP was named Management Firm of the Year by the EuroHedge Awards 2011, reflecting the strong performance delivered by a number of our funds during the year. The firm is dedicated to the objective of providing its clients with a persistent, risk-adjusted return on their investment. Through our range of products, investors can select funds offering variable sources of alpha and beta, in different combinations, from equity markets around the world. We bring together two distinct but complementary approaches to asset management. First, traditional, fundamental long/short investing grounded in stock-specific analytical research and secondly, Marshall Wace TOPS (‘MW TOPS’), the pioneering, and proprietary, systematic, alpha capture strategy. Marshall Wace has built a robust and scalable global infrastructure. Our strong operational platform, disciplined multi-factor risk control systems and efficient quantitative trading support our portfolio managers in their efforts to maximise the skill-based return delivered to investors. In October 2010, 2011 and 2013, Marshall Wace was recognised as ‘IT Department of the Year - Buy Side’ by the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading & Technology. We were instrumental in the creation of the Hedge Fund Standards Board, which has been set up to establish and maintain a set of voluntary best practice standards for hedge fund managers including disclosure, valuation, risk management, fund governance and shareholder conduct. Marshall Wace is a founder signatory of its Best Practice Standards. Many of our partners and employees invest alongside our clients, ensuring alignment of interest.