Adage Capital Management

Adage Capital Management (Adage) is an American investment management firm based in Boston.[2]

Adage Capital Management, L.P.
TypePrivate
IndustryInvestment Management
Founded2001 (2001)
Founders
  • Phillip Gross
  • Robert Atchinson
Headquarters200 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
AUMUS$ 58 billion (2022)
Number of employees
54 (2022)
Websitewww.adagecapital.com
Footnotes / references
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Background

Phillip Gross and Robert Atchinson met as investment analysts at the Harvard University endowment in the mid 1980s.[3] In the 1990s, some Harvard faculty and alumni criticized the institution for paying multi-milion dollar performance bonuses to some Harvard Management employees.[3][4] In part due to such scrutiny, the pair left Harvard to form their own firm, Adage Capital Management.[2][3][4] They took with them an 18-person team and a $1.8 billion day-one investment from Harvard in exchange for an initial agreement (now expired) to pay ten percent of Adage's earnings to the university.[3][4]

Adage invests primarily in the S&P 500 equity market universe, based on fundamental analysis.[2][5][6]

Adage pays partial rebates of prior year fees to its investors when the fund's performance fails to outperform the S&P 500 benchmark.[2][3][6][7] The firm has only had to refund its fees on a few occasions.[2][3][6][7][8]

Adage has made private equity investments in startups and early stage companies, including Forter,[9] GitLab,[10] Gopuff,[11] HawkEye 360[12] and Tanium.[13]

Adage manages assets primarily for tax-exempt institutions.[2][3][7][5]

In 2015, Adage was reported to be one of the world's top 10 largest hedge funds after its assets under management doubled in the last four years.[3] It had an annualized return of 9.7% since inception which was higher than S&P 500 benchmark of 6.4%.[2][3][6] However the next year for the first time it significantly underperformed the S&P 500 benchmark for a fiscal year with a return of 1.1% for the 12 months ending in June.[3][6][8]

Adage was ranked third amongst all major hedge funds in the Institutional Investor 2016 Hedge Fund Report Card citing strong scores in Alpha generation, risk management, alignment of interest, infrastructure and independent oversight.[14] However Adage received poor scores for transparency and investor relations as the firm was noted to be extraordinarily secretive and did not give out much information to investors or the media.[2][6][14]

References
  1. "Form ADV" (PDF). SEC. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  2. Copeland, Rob (10 September 2015). "How the World's Biggest Stock Hedge Fund Stayed a Secret". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  3. Copeland, Rob (10 September 2015). "Giant Hedge Fund's Radical Idea: Performance Guaranteed or Your Money Back". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  4. Bulkeley, William (14 June 2001). "Two Money Managers at Harvard Quit Endowment to Start Own Firm". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  5. Kumar, Rajesh (2014-07-16). Strategies of Banks and Other Financial Institutions: Theories and Cases. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-417167-1.
  6. "When a Harvard Pedigree Won't Help You". Institutional Investor. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  7. "How One Hedge Fund Is Shaking Up the Industry". Time. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  8. "Adage Capital Trailing Stocks Says 'Smart Beta' Distorts Market". Bloomberg.com. 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  9. Lunden, Ingrid (2021-05-25). "Forter raises $300M on a $3B valuation to combat e-commerce fraud". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  10. "GitLab raises $268 million in funding, may look at direct listing". Reuters. 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  11. Lunden, Ingrid (2021-07-30). "Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  12. Werner, Debra (2021-11-09). "HawkEye 360 raises $145 million in Series D round". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  13. "Tanium raises $200 million in latest funding, valuation at $6.5 billion". Reuters. 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  14. Taub, Stephen (2021-01-27). "The Hedge Fund Report Card" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
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