The RUFFER is a privately held investment adviser that advises $50.81Bn in regulatory assets under management held in 3 SEC fund types across 3 investment strategies. RUFFER is a Hybrid A hybrid fund manager is a manager whose total assets under management are spread across multiple investment vehicle types rather than concentrated in one. Fund Manager. Assets increased by 170.89% over the last 5-years.
The Group has been registered with the SEC for 5.59 years and is comprised of 2 filing and 0 relying advisers. They operate out of 2 office locations with their Headquarters at 80 VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, -. The Group has been subject to regulatory enforcement actions. They are regulated by 9 US and Non-US bodies.
They have 316 employees comprised of 44 investment and 272 non-investment staff. The total number of Employees increased by 2,772.73% over the last 5-years.
Their $50.81Bn in assets advised are owned by 21 private funds, 11 public funds and BDCs and 659 other accounts. Assets of Investment Companies (IC) clients own $25.9Bn or 50.97% of Total Assets and Pooled Investment Vehicles (Not IC or BDC) own $12.55Bn or 24.7% of Total Assets.
The Group's top investment strategies include Multi Strat, Long/Short Equity and Derivatives, representing 80.03%, 17.87% and 2.1% of total assets, respectively.
They advise 7 types of clients, top clients are Investment Companies (IC) and Pooled Investment Vehicles (Not IC or BDC).
The Group uses 5 Fund Administrators, 1 Fund Auditors, 0 Prime Brokers, 3 Custodians and 14 Marketers. It does not report a third-party Fund Administrator in 0 private funds with $0 in assets.
The Group discloses management fees.
RUFFER 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 RUFFER's case, they have 22 business conditions that require high process maturity and 3 Watch Factors.