Man Investments Australia is part of London-based Man Group plc. Man Group plc is known as a world wide specialist in alternative investment management, and maintains approximately USD50 billion under management. Man Investments Australia is known for its Man OM-IP series of capital-guaranteed, structured investment funds.

The first Man OM-IP fund, Man OM-IP 220 Limited, was launched in August 1997. After launching 33 capital guaranteed funds in Australia, New Zealand and Asia since 1997, Man OM-IP funds now have more than A$7 billion under management and over 116,000 shareholdings. Each of the Man OM-IP funds comes with a capital guarantee and rising guarantee provided by either Westpac, National Australia Bank or Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Man Investments has always focused exclusively on alternative investments and, through its core investment managers, we have developed strengths in distinct alternative asset classes. Each investment manager functions independently and focus exclusively on investment management, managed by Man Investments' business and corporate infrastructure. The investment managers are:

• AHL
• Glenwood
• Man Global Strategies
• RMF

N.B. MGS and Glenwood are currently being re-structured to create the combined entity Man Glenwood Strategies. The combined business will bring together the investment expertise, manager relationships and research network of Glenwood, with the managed account infrastructure, operational experience and investor servicing capabilities of MGS.

A point of possible interests to investors is that the latest product offering, Man OM-IP AHL will access the AHL Diversified Program. This is a computerised trading system that operates accross 150 different markets. This sytem has acheived a 17.3% annualised return since its inception, but must interestingly has shown a significant disconnect with movements in the worldwide property, bonds and stockmarkets.

This platform made a 17.6% profit for the year to November 2008. See here for more details.