Asset Management Awards for Excellence 2019 – Best Service Provider – Hedge Fund Platform

Best Service Provider Hedge Fund Platform

 

Legg Mason Global Asset Management

Best Service Provider – Hedge Fund Platform

Lennie Lim

managing director and regional head, Asia, Legg Mason Global Asset Management

“Legg Mason’s global, strategically diversified portfolio of independent investment managers provides expertise to support clients’ long-term goals. Leveraging our multi-affiliate model, Legg Mason accords clients an expanding choice of best-in-class investment solutions from our independent affiliates with deep and diverse investment capabilities: liquid alternatives from Brandywine Global and Western Asset, long/short strategies from Martin Currie and RARE, alternative credits from EnTrustPermal, and real assets from Clarion Partners.

Our global distribution capabilities are augmented in Asia with a team of dedicated sales, client service, marketing and product professionals based locally in Hong Kong and Singapore. Being on the ground, the team is able to actively engage with our partners and clients. This approach allows us to support and continually build upon our strategic relationship with local partners.

Our success in establishing winning relationships with private banks/wealth managers is exemplified by delivering timely updates on their investments and market events, accessibility of our portfolio managers, training sessions for wealth managers, and hosting investment seminars/client events.

In 2019, our pipeline includes more liquid alternative offerings and long/short strategies, co-investment opportunities, alternative credit, investments in real estate assets, and multi-asset offerings.”

Winners rationale

In the past year, difficulties in the long-only market presented providers of alternative strategies with an ideal opportunity to demonstrate their value to clients in search of diversification and returns. And none more so than Legg Mason Global Asset Management, a long-standing powerhouse in the mutual fund space which leverages its extensive hedge fund platform housing the capabilities of its nine independent investment brands to deliver timely, best-in-breed long/short solutions to end-clients whose appetite for uncorrelated returns continues to grow.

Of particular note is one of Legg Mason’s flagship unconstrained bond strategies from its globally integrated fixed income affiliate, Western Asset. Having identified early a lack of high-quality unconstrained bond solutions in the region, the asset manager launched the Unconstrained Bond Fund to meet the growing demand for benchmark-agnostic strategies exhibiting low or negative correlation against traditional asset classes.

Outshining its peers in the category by clinching the Best Service Provider award for a hedge fund platform, Legg Mason demonstrated that its client-centric processes and best-in-class service standards have been well recognised by its private bank partners.

Examples of client-servicing efforts include regular access to investment professionals through bespoke in-house seminars, fund reviews, and training sessions.

Through its active engagement in Asia’s wealth management ecosystem, Legg Mason was voted by the region’s private banks as this year’s Asian Private Banker Best Service Provider – Hedge Fund Platform.


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