Welcome back to another special edition of Goldman Sachs Exchanges, great investors.

I'm John Story from the Goldman Sachs Global Banking and Markets Business and I'm your host for today's episode.

Today I am delighted to speak with Luke Ellis, the CEO of Man Group, the world's largest

listed Hedge Fund Manager. Since Luke took the helm helm as CEO in 2016, Man Group's assets under

management have almost doubled to around $150 billion. Earlier this year, Luke announced

he'll be retiring from the firm and President Robin Grew will be stepping

in as CEO in September. We will be discussing Luke's career, what he's learned as a CEO,

and also his perspectives on the hedge fund industry, as well as his views on the markets and

trends shaping the global economy. Luke welcome to the program. Hey John nice to be

here. Fantastic. So let's start with a bit of an overview of man group for our

listeners because it is quite unique origins.

The company actually started as a barrel maker in 1783 and has evolved into a self-described

technology empowered active investment manager.

So Luke, what does Man Group look like today?

Today it looks nothing like the barrel maker of 240 years ago, but it is nice to have a 240 year

history.

Today we're a broad active asset manager,

as you talked about 150 billion.

We are relative to other people a lot more hedge funds,

so it's not all hedge fund,

but we are one of the two or three largest hedge fund

platforms at the same time we're much more quantitative than most people. So it's

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