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Asset Management Industry Focus Higdon Partners focuses exclusively on clients who manage money. We provide executive search services for asset and wealth management clients, including traditional institutional, mutual fund, and high-net-worth organizations as well as for hedge funds, fund of funds, plan sponsors, endowments and foundations, private equity firms, family offices, consulting firms, minority firms, and governmental agencies. By specializing in the asset management industry, Higdon Partners can provide its clients an educated perspective based on an intimate knowledge of organizations, industry trends, and individual players, compensation levels and components.
Extensive Experience Our firm was established in 1986, and has concentrated exclusively on the asset management industry since 1992. The firm’s senior search professionals have both extensive asset management search experience as well as previous work experience with leading financial services firms in a wide variety of important functions. With a record of successfully satisfying client needs in all functions, Higdon Partners has earned an excellent reputation in the executive search profession and in the investment world.
Partner Attention and Involvement Higdon Partners is owned and managed by active partners who are directly involved in the search process for every search conducted by the firm. Search professionals in the firm are supported by an outstanding team of in-house research, operations, and administrative professionals. Partner attention to searches has enabled the firm to have an extraordinarily high rate of repeat business from existing clients.
We choose to work on a select number of important search assignments at the senior and leadership levels, in order to provide the firm’s full attention and resources on each client assignment.
Known by the Company We Keep The firm prides itself on producing a quality of service and results that has led to a stellar list of clients who are leading names in the investment field. Reputable clients in each of the specific market segments in the asset management industry include:
- Investment Management/Mutual Fund firms. Fidelity Investments, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, Verdis Investment Management, Wellington Management Company, Grantham, Mayo & Van Otterloo.
- Corporate Plan Sponsors. General Motors Asset Management, Eastman Kodak, Verizon.
- Endowments and Foundations. Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Phillips Academy at Andover.
- Family Offices/High-Net-Worth Clients. Park Agency (Kennedy Family), Vulcan (Paul Allen), Quadrant Advisors (Santo Domingo Family).
- Hedge Funds and Fund-of-Funds. Aetos Capital, Arden Asset Management, Highland Capital, Prisma Capital Partners, Richard Breeden & Co.
- Private Equity. Aetos Capital, Carlyle Group, Pomona Capital.
- Government Agencies. World Bank, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
- Minority Firms. Utendahl Capital Management, Progress Investment Management Company.
The firm is proud of our client list, our record of successfully completing search assignments, and our reputation, which we work hard every day to uphold and sustain. We are proud of every individual in our firm who has met the high standards of admission to Higdon Partners. We are especially pleased with our reputation for high standards, integrity, professionalism, and our ability to execute and close search assignments. We also are members of and strongly support the Association of Executive Search Consultants, and the advancement and development of higher industry standards.
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