The TWO SIGMA GROUP is a privately held investment adviser that advises $419.7Bn in regulatory assets under management held in 4 SEC fund types across 7 investment strategies. TWO SIGMA GROUP is a Private Fund A private fund manager is a manager whose >=75% of total assets under management are in private funds (privately offered pooled vehicles for accredited or qualified investors, generally accessed through placements with higher minimums, restricted eligibility, and negotiated terms) Manager. Assets increased by 154.56% over the last 5-years.
The Group has been registered with the SEC for 16.46 years and is comprised of 6 filing and 0 relying advisers. They operate out of 2 office locations with their Headquarters at 100 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 16TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY. The Group has been subject to regulatory enforcement actions. They are regulated by 6 US and Non-US bodies.
They have 1,833 employees comprised of 861 investment and 972 non-investment staff. The total number of Employees increased by 13.64% over the last 5-years.
Their $419.7Bn in assets advised are owned by 93 private funds, 1 public fund and BDCs and 218 other accounts. Assets of Pooled Investment Vehicles (Not IC or BDC) clients own $416.65Bn or 99.27% of Total Assets and Corporations or Other Businesses own $1.86Bn or 0.44% of Total Assets.
The Group's top investment strategies include Quantitative Trading, Multi Strat and Long/Short Equity, representing 39.67%, 36.89% and 12.42% of total assets, respectively.
They advise 10 types of clients, top clients are Pooled Investment Vehicles (Not IC or BDC) and Corporations or Other Businesses.
The Group uses 3 Fund Administrators, 1 Fund Auditors, 19 Prime Brokers, 23 Custodians and 5 Marketers. It does not report a third-party Fund Administrator in 0 private funds with $0 in assets.
The Group discloses advisory fees, fixed fees, management fees and performance-based fees.
TWO SIGMA GROUP names 0 sub-advisers to 0 different funds advised by the group. The Group has been named as the sub-adviser to 0 funds.
They have a HIGH-WATCH risk business model that requires a high degree of process maturity to manage operational risk. A Manager Group has a "High Complexity" when 25% or more of 63 business conditions measured require a high level of process maturity to manage the risk. The "Watch" suffix indicates that one or more of the following business conditions carry a high-complexity score: 1) % Fund Assets Valued Internally, 2) prior Regulatory Violations, 3) Unqualified Audits, 4) Multi-Functional C-Suite and 5) Business Concentration Risk with an Auditor or Administrator.
In TWO SIGMA GROUP's case, they have 29 business conditions that require high process maturity and 1 Watch Factors.