LMR Partners

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LMR Partners LLP
Type Private
Industry Investment management
FoundedNovember 2009;14 years ago (2009-11)
Founders
  • Ben Levine
  • Andrew Manuel
  • Stefan Renold
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Products Hedge funds
Alternative investments
AUM US$10.8 billion (March 2023)
Number of employees
190 (November 2022)
Website www.lmrpartners.com
Footnotes /references
[1] [2]

LMR Partners (LMR) is a British multi-strategy investment firm. It has a focus on global macro and event-driven investment strategies and makes use of both systematic and discretionary trading strategies.

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The firm is headquartered in London with an additional offices in Hong Kong, New York, Zurich, Dubai and Glasgow.

Background

In November 2009, LMR was founded by Ben Levine, Andrew Manuel and Stefan Renold with the firm's name coming after the first letter of their surnames. The three of them were previously traders who worked at UBS and Goldman Sachs. Donald Sussman's Paloma Partners provided seed money for LMR to manage. [3] [4] [5]

The firm started trading in February 2010. In 2010 and 2011, LMR had a return of 30% and 38% respectively while the average hedge fund return was 10.25% and -5.25% in the same timeframe. [4] [5]

In August 2012, LMR expanded its business operations into Asia by opening an office in Hong Kong with Renold running it. [4] [5]

It was reported that LMR's profits in 2013 dropped by 54% compared to the previous year. [5]

In 2015, Manuel left LMR to start his own global macro hedge fund, Ixworth Capital. [6]

In February 2017, it was reported that Giacomo Draghi, son of then-President of the European Central Bank (and later Prime Minister of Italy) Mario Draghi , had left his job as a trader at Morgan Stanley to join LMR as a portfolio manager. [7]

In September 2018, Petershill Partners acquired a minority stake of LMR for an undisclosed sum. [8]

According to Bloomberg News, from 2010 to the start of 2020, LMR had never experienced an overall loss over a 12-month period. For 119 months since its establishment, it had posted losses in only 19 of them making it one of the world's most steady hedge funds. However, in March 2020, LMR reported a loss of 12.5% due to market conditions being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the main factors were basis trades which was the primary method that LMR made money and was by far its biggest wager. LMR had to reduce its investments and trading activities while asking its investors to inject more capital into its funds. [9] [10] [11]

In November 2022, LMR opened an office in Dubai following the trend of other hedge funds. [12]

In June 2023, LMR and Kyma Capital sued Anchorage Capital Group and PJT Partners. They were all creditors of healthcare provider, Orpea and Anchorage and PJT Partners were working with its steering committee to restructure the company's debt. LMR and Kyma Capital claimed the restructuring deal benefits the steering committee at the expense of the other creditors. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Form ADV" (PDF). SEC.
  2. ↑ "LMR PARTNERS LLP overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
  3. ↑ "Tomorrow's Titans" (PDF). The Hedge Fund Journal. 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 Agnew, Harriet (9 August 2012). "Paloma-backed hedge fund boutique looks to Asia". Financial News London.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Ahuja, Vivek (10 May 2014). "LMR profits halve in 2013". Financial News London.
  6. ↑ "LMR Partners Co-Founder Manuel Said to Plan Own Macro Hedge Fund". Bloomberg.com. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  7. ↑ "Giacomo Draghi Said to Exit Morgan Stanley for Hedge Fund". Bloomberg.com. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "Goldman's Petershill takes minority stake in hedge fund LMR: source". Reuters. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "Hedge Fund That Rarely Loses Has Its Worst Start to Year Ever". Bloomberg.com. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "Ben Levine's LMR Raises Capital After Hedge Fund Drops 12.5%". Bloomberg.com. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  11. ↑ Chung, Juliet (19 March 2020). "Hedge Funds Hit by Losses in 'Basis Trade'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  12. ↑ "Hedge Fund LMR Joins Millennium, ExodusPoint to Open in Dubai". Bloomberg.com. 15 November 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  13. ↑ "Orpea creditors Kyma Capital, LMR apply to US court to obtain documentation". Reuters. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
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