Multi-strategy hedge fund manager Deimos Asset Management has launched a new hedge fund management business with a strategic investment from Ares Management.
Deimos was formed through a management buyout of Guggenheim Global Trading, LLC, the former multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge fund platform of Guggenheim Partners. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers) is an anchor investor in Deimos’ multi-strategy product through a managed account platform.
Deimos is led by Patrick Hughes and Loren Katzovitz, former co-heads of Guggenheim Global Trading, and Mark Standish, a former Group Executive of Royal Bank of Canada and Co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets, as Managing Partners. Deimos is focused on the development of a suite of alternative asset management products, which is expected to include a multi-strategy hedge fund, along with a wide variety of individual hedge fund strategies. Deimos launched its operations with nine investment strategies focusing initially on the U.S. and Europe with plans to expand into additional markets over time.
“Having known the partners of Deimos professionally for many years, we are excited to work with this team to enter the large and rapidly growing hedge fund asset class, which represents 30% to 40% of all alternative investments today,” says Michael Arougheti, Co-Founder and President of Ares. “We believe we can create value with this strategic partnership by cross selling its hedge fund advisory services to our global investor base. This is a natural extension of our firm’s continuing diversification across alternative asset classes, which we believe enhances our value proposition to our investors.”
“We could not be more pleased to be working with Ares and to have Ontario Teachers’ as an anchor investor,” says Loren Katzovitz, one of Deimos’ Managing Partners. “Ares possesses a world-class distribution and marketing team which will be invaluable to us as we expand our hedge fund offerings. We look forward to building this business and executing on what we see as a very large opportunity within the hedge fund space.”
