GAM Star Japan Ldrs Instl GBP Acc
This fund can be held in a Dealing accountStocks and shares ISALifetime ISAJISASIPP
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Management
| Name of company | GAM Fund Management Limited |
| Phone | +353 1 6093927 |
| Website | www.gam.com |
| Address | Georges Court, 54-62 Townsend Street - Dublin Ireland |
Fund
| Domicile | IRL |
| Legal structure | OEIC |
| UCITS | Yes |
| Inception date | 19/06/2013 |
Managers
| Fund manager | Randel (Randy) Freeman |
| Manager start date | 22/05/2026 |
| Biography | Randel (Randy) Freeman - Co-Head / Co-CIO, GAM Alternatives (GAMAlts)Randy became Co-Head of GAM Alternatives in July 2024. He is integral to building out GAM's alternative investment capabilities as Co-Head / Co-CIO of our new specialist alternative investments unit: GAM Alternatives (GAMAlts).Randel (Randy) Freeman has over 30 years of experience in the global hedge fund investment management industry, having managed a range of alternative investment funds and managed accounts during his career. From 2017 to 2023, Randy was a member of the Investment Committee of SSVL Monaco, a Monaco based activist fund focused on small and mid-cap European companies. 2014 to 2016, Randy was the CIO of the Fortress Centaurus Global Fund. In 2000, Randy co-founded Centaurus Capital, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund group with AUM at its peak of USD 5 billion, where he served as CEO and CIO until 2014 when the business was sold to the Fortress Investment Group. Prior to this, he was co-head of the Risk Arbitrage division at Banque Paribas in London and an Associate at Goldman Sachs in New York. Randy is a CFA Charter holder and has an MBA from the University of Chicago, CFA UK Level 4 Certificate in ESG investing, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and a Certificate in Advanced Responsible Investment Analysis from PRI Academy. Randy holds American/British/Swiss nationalities. |
| Fund manager | Albert Saporta |
| Manager start date | 22/05/2026 |
| Biography | Group Chief Executive Officer and Global Head of Investments & Products, Co-CIO GAM AlternativesAlbert Saporta was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer (Group CEO) of GAM Holding AG in July 2025 and is a member of the group management board.Albert Saporta has 40 years’ experience in global financial markets, with over 30 years in the hedge fund industry focusing on special situations and arbitrage. Albert started his career at Paribas in Paris, where he managed the Japan/Asia mutual funds from 1984-85. He joined Merrill Lynch in London as Vice President of Japanese equity sales from 1985-88, covering major UK, European and US institutional accounts. In 1988, he joined UBS Securities in London where he headed quantitative research and hedge fund sales for Japanese equities until 1991. He then joined IFM, at the time the first London-based hedge fund of size and owned by Jacob Rothschild’s St James’s Place and AIG and where he set up and managed relative value global equity arbitrage strategies until early 1995. He then left to set up Geneva-based AIM&R, a hedge fund advisory and research firm, managing the top-performing SOG and SOGAsia funds (the latter in a strategic JV with UOB). In March 2006, Albert sold AIM&R ‘s research and hedge fund businesses to ABN Amro Bank (London). As part of the transaction, he set-up the Special Opportunities Group (SOG) at ABN (based in London, Singapore and Sao Paulo), managing a balance sheet of over US$ 1bn in global arbitrage strategies and special situations. AIM&R was relaunched in 2011 under its current form as a research and trading advisory firm, and advising some of the largest global hedge funds, pension funds, prop trading firms and UHNW family offices. Albert has a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University (1984), an MBA (1983) and BSc in economics (1982) from New York University, and a Math/Physics degree from the University of Nice (1980). In his career, Albert has lived and worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Tel Aviv. He is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Albert is a French, Israeli and Spanish citizen. |