From the mailbag:

FYI, in the aftermath of the GLG buy, things are not good inside Man Group.

Employees are leaving en masse globally – bonus outlook is grim in light of them having no cash on hand after this recent deal. They’re bleeding Bleeding money. Other fund of funds (and hedge funds as well) are picking off Man employees in New York, London and elsewhere (for example, Jaime Castan). Man is in a frantic search for a new product to sell. Hence, the GLG purchase. AHL is suffering and the redemptions continue to mount while the costs for leverage are steep.

Comments (29)

  1. Posted by new_york_trader | July 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM

    this isn’t news, it’s been happening for over a year. no one is happy there and everyone is looking

  2. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 2:13 PM

    Man Group Bleeding Ass.

  3. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 2:18 PM

    Man’s Ass Bleeding

  4. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    What the h%ll happen to the markets? Someone’s ass must be bleeding?

  5. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 2:21 PM

    Man is my ass bleeding! Damn.

  6. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM

    Is this the place that just added Corzine to the starting team?

  7. Posted by Bess Levin | July 21, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    @6 that would be MF Global.

  8. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 2:33 PM

    I thought Man’s Ass Bleeding was the name of Meredith Whitney’s new fund.

  9. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 3:06 PM

    Man Group sucks

  10. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM

    Man oh Man- your jokes are lousy

  11. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM

    When Bess Levin go in mailbag, ass bleed you!

  12. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    AHL was up 4% YTD through June and runs 20+ billion. I’m not going to lose a whole lot of sleep worrying about them.

  13. Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2010 at 5:01 PM

    hmmm, not sure Jaime was such an irretrievable loss to the firm or that he left so willingly … sounds more like a disgruntled former employee if you ask me . . .

  14. Posted by Torq | July 21, 2010 at 5:32 PM

    Man Group used to own man financial/mf global until mid 07 spinoff IPO. They got 27 $, the come price selling virtually the whole thing in the offer. trades @ 6 now with the gov of jersey

  15. Posted by Man(kini) Group | July 23, 2010 at 5:49 AM

    As new_york_trader says, been going on for a while. It’s not that so many people are leaving themselves, they are forced to. Man Group has no respect for its employees and just fires you whenever they feel like. No matter how long you’re there. No wonder they have such a bad name and can’t find any new employees.

  16. Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2010 at 7:41 AM

    And recently a Man London employee was fired for breaking the swiss law by reading his team members emails…. people are leaving left right and centre

  17. Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2010 at 7:45 AM

    Irvin & Gra run an operational mess

  18. Posted by Anon | July 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM

    This does surprise me. Shambolic mismanagement.

  19. Posted by Anonymous | July 28, 2010 at 3:59 AM

  20. Posted by Anonymous | July 28, 2010 at 7:32 AM

    Maybe Jaime Castan had to leave because he was personally invested in a Madoff Feeder while being head of research…?
    And what about this risk guy, Moix? – Is this bloke still there?

  21. Posted by aov | July 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM

    Jaime left on his own he saw the writing on the wall. With hedge fund ventures being shut mgs is next. Like Uwe Ebler, Jamie is a smart person who jumped ship before it sank. GLG is was a bad deal the new research department of AHL will not work out. Man is in big trouble. Someone please call underdog!

  22. Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2010 at 5:39 PM

    Come on, one should not be naive. Jaimer is a good guy but did not achieve much while at Man, lost the support of his style heads and assets went down. For him, this 7 digit posslition was very comfi, he could plan bus trips around the formula 1 schedule while Bergmayer was running the show behind the sceenes…

  23. Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM

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  24. Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2010 at 4:14 AM

    xxxx

  25. Posted by Anonymous | August 4, 2010 at 9:51 AM

    one fat cat is still there being fed…

  26. Posted by Anonymous | August 12, 2010 at 12:03 PM

    Worst place to work at, I watched them fire the black guy who was a contractor. Thier reason? “He made too many noises” How pathetic.

  27. Posted by Anonymous | August 12, 2010 at 12:03 PM

    Worst place to work at, I watched them fire the black guy who was a contractor. Their reason? “He made too many noises” How pathetic.

  28. Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    What do you mean by fat cat? Cadellie, Petretti, Moixs or even Meissingern?

  29. Posted by Anonymous | August 20, 2010 at 4:18 PM

    Garfield

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