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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Investment Management |
Founded | 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) |
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Website | www |
Footnotes /references [1] |
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]
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]