PanAgora Asset Management

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PanAgora Asset Management, Inc.
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Investment Management
Founded1989;35 years ago (1989)
Founders
  • Richard A. Crowell
Headquarters One International Place, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
Eric Sorensen (President and CEO)
AUM US$44 billion (March 31, 2022)
Number of employees
126 (2022)
Parent
Website www.panagora.com
Footnotes /references
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PanAgora Asset Management (PanAgora) is an American investment management firm based in Boston. The firm is noted for its usage of quantitative analysis in its approach to investing. [2] [3] [4] It is a direct subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and its ultimate parent is Power Financial. [5]

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Background

PanAgora was founded in 1989 by Richard A. Crowell. [2] [3] Crowell is considered to be one of the early pioneers of quantitative investing. [2] [3] When the firm was founded, Crowell made sure all of its strategies were quantitative. [2] However, later on the firm also incorporated the use of behavioral economics to perform analysis. [2] [6]

PanAgora originally was a 50-50 joint venture between Shearson Lehman Brothers and Nippon Life. [7] [8]

In 1997, Putnam Investments acquired 50% of PanAgora from the shareholder now named Lehman Brothers. [7] [9] [10]

On August 22, 1998, Crowell died from cancer at 57. [8]

PanAgora opened an office in London in 1990 which oversaw around $800 million in assets, mainly for European pension funds. [7] [10] However, by 1998, the London office was closed due to lack of profitability. [7] [10]

PanAgora and DZ Bank formed a joint venture called DG PanAgora in 1998. [7] [10] PanAgora exited the joint venture in 2008 by selling its stake to Union Investment, the investment arm of DZ Bank. [11]

In 2004, Eric Sorensen joined PanAgora from Putnam Investments and is currently the president and CEO of the firm. [12] In the same year, Putnam Investments acquired an additional 30% stake of PanAgora from Ippon Life increasing its holding to 80%. [13] In 2018, Putnam Investments acquired the remaining 20% stake of PanAgora from Nippon Life. [14]

PanAgora was directly owned by Putnam Investments which was owned by Great-West Lifeco and ultimately owned by Power Financial. [5] On May 31, 2023, Great-West Lifeco announced that Franklin Templeton Investments would acquire Putnam Investments for $925 million. PanAgora would not be included in the acquisition and would remain under Great-West Lifeco. [15] [16] [17]

The term Risk parity was coined by Edward Qian in a paper written in 2004. [4] [18] Qian is currently Chief investment officer of Multi Asset Investments at PanAgora. [4] [18]

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