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Global hedge fund giant appoints Hyde and Longhurst directors to social housing arm
The world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund company has hired directors from two major housing associations to its community housing team.
Tom Shaw, former managing director of development at Hyde, and Ian Jackson, former executive director of portfolio investment at Longhurst, have both taken up the role of investment director at Man Group. They were appointed in August.
Earlier this year, Man Group announced plans to launch its own registered provider of social housing, through which it will seek to deliver homes for social and affordable rent, shared ownership, Rent to Buy, market rent and sale.
At the same time, the firm said it would launch a new community housing team, which is to be overseen by its newly hired head of community housing and portfolio manager, Shamez Alibhai.
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Marine Guerin, who previously worked at Venn Partners within the commercial real estate team, also joined the Community Housing team at Man Group as an investment associate in May.
Mr Shaw said: “I am delighted to be joining the team. With Man Group’s considerable resources and commitment to responsible investing, plus the benefit of a dedicated advisory committee with deep industry knowledge, I think there is a real opportunity here to help plug the affordable and social housing gap in the UK.”
Mr Jackson said: “Having spent the majority of my career at a housing association, I am very excited to be joining Man Group’s community housing team to help deploy much-needed private capital into affordable and social housing. I have been impressed by Shamez’s prior experience and vision for the strategy and look forward to being a part of it.”
Update: at 14:45 on 24/09/2019 This article was updated after it originally incorrectly stated that Paul Beardmore was part of the community housing team. Paul Beardmore is part of Man Group’s community housing advisory committee.
