Acquiror | Acquired or
Target Company | Type of Transaction
and Status |
| Janus Capital Group Inc., a global asset manager with approximately $195 billion AUM | Henderson Group plc, a global investment management firm with approximately £95 billion AUM | All stock merger (Henderson shareholders will own approximately 57% of Janus Henderson, with the remaining 43% owned by Janus shareholders) |
| Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a global asset management company with approximately $700 billion AUM | Winton Group Ltd., a London-based global investment manager with approximately $30 billion AUM and Partner Fund Management, L.P, a San Francisco-based hedge fund sponsor with approximately $4.3 billion AUM | Acquisition of Interest
(terms not disclosed) |
| 361 Capital, a boutique asset manager with approximately $2 billion AUM | BRC Investment Management, LLC, a global equity asset manager with approximately $879 million AUM | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
| Investcorp, an alternative multi-asset class investment manager with approximately $11 billion AUM | Debt management business of 3i Group PLC with approximately $12 billion AUM | Acquisition
(Subject to regulatory approval: expected to close in the first half of 2017) |
| Eaton Vance Corp., an asset manager with approximately $343.0 billion AUM | Calvert Investment Management, Inc., (indirect subsidiary of Ameritas Holding Company) a manager of mutual funds with approximately $12.3 billion AUM | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
| Rosemont Investment Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with approximately $142 million AUM | Boston Common Asset Management, LLC, a Boston-based investment manager with approximately $2.1 billion AUM | Acquisition
(minority stakeholder position) |
| iM Square, a global investment and development platform | Dolan McEniry Capital Management, a Chicago based asset management firm with approximately $5.8 billion AUM | Acquisition (minority stakeholder position) |
| Teton Advisors Inc., a New York-based multi-strategy investment adviser with approximately $1.5 billion AUM | Keeley Asset Management Corp., a Chicago-based privately owned asset management firm with approximately $2.5 billion AUM | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
| Allianz Global Investors, a New York-based privately owned investment manager with approximately $610 billion AUM | Sound Harbor Partners, a New York-based investment firm and private credit manager with approximately $1.14 billion AUM | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
| Federated Investors, Inc., an investment manager with $364.3 AUM | Horizon Advisers, an unincorporated division of Whitney Bank which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hancock Holding Company | Acquisition and reorganization of the portfolios of three Hancock Horizon funds |
| Victory Capital, multi-boutique asset manager based in Cleveland, Ohio with approximately $51.4 billion AUM | Cerebellum Capital, San Francisco-based machine-learning investment manager with approximately $104 million AUM | Acquisition (parent of Victory Capital, Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. acquired a minority stake in Cerebellum Capital) |
| Stepstone Group LP, a global private markets firm with approximately $28 billion AUM | Swiss Capital Alternative Investments AG, an international alternative asset manager with approximately $6.5 billion AUM | Acquisition
(terms not disclosed) |
| Mercer Advisors Inc., a national registered investment advisor based in Santa Barbara, California with approximately $9.2 billion AUM | Pegasus Advisors, LLC, a registered investment advisor firm based in Dallas, TX with approximately $50 million AUM | Merger
(terms not disclosed) |
| Virtus Investment Partners, Inc., a multi-manager asset management company | RidgeWorth Investments, a global investment management firm with approximately $40.2 billion AUM | Acquisition (the transaction values RidgeWorth at $472 million and Virtus will also acquire certain investments at their fair value as of closing, for total consideration of approximately $513 million) |
| Amundi, a Paris-based global asset management firm with approximately $1.26 trillion AUM | Pioneer Investments, an international asset manager with approximately €222 billion AUM | Acquisition (Amundi will acquire Pioneer Investments for a cash consideration of €3,545 million, and Amundi and Pioneer’s parent UniCredit will form a long term strategic partnership) |
| Man Group plc, a Boston-based quantitative asset manager with approximately $78.1 billion AUM | Aalto Invest Holding AG, a real asset focused investment manager with approximately $1.7 billion AUM | Acquisition (Man Group would acquire Aalto’s entire issued share capital) |