Man Announces Completion of

Numeric Holdings LLC Acquisition

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London and Boston, 5 September 2014 Man Group plc (Man) today announced that, following a
successful shareholder vote, it had completed the previously announced acquisition of Numeric
Holdings LLC (Numeric), a privately-owned, Boston-based quantitative equity manager with $14.7
billion of funds under management as at 30 June 2014.
Commenting on the completion of the acquisition, Manny Roman, Chief Executive Officer of Man,
said:
We are delighted to announce the completion of the acquisition of Numeric, which has an impressive
track record of performance, a strong US footprint and a talented management team. Numeric is very
well positioned to benefit significantly from our scale and resources and Im excited by the
opportunities this acquisition brings for our investors and shareholders.
This transaction provides attractive strategic, commercial and financial benefits to Man and its
shareholders, including the creation of a diversified, global quantitative investment platform
represented by AHL and Numeric, with over $26 billion of funds under management as at 30 June
2014. As a result, Mans quantitative investment platform now offers clients a broad product range
across alternative and long-only, trend following, technical and fundamental strategies. In addition, the
acquisition further expands Mans footprint in North America, while enhancing its ability to achieve a
strong risk-adjusted return on capital through an immediately accretive transaction.
Founded in 1989, Numeric has an attractive and established investment track record across a range of
long-only and long-short, fundamentally based quantitative strategies. Numeric manages four main
categories of quantitative equity strategies across long-only and alternatives.
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Enquiries:
Fiona Smart
Head of Investor Relations
+44 20 7144 2030
fiona.smart@man.com
Rosanna Konarzewski
Global Head of Communications
+44 20 7144 2078
media@man.com
UK
RLM Finsbury
Ryan OKeeffe/Chris Ryall
mangroup@RLMFinsbury.com
+44 20 7251 3801
US
Prosek Partners
Brian Schaffer/Caroline Harris-Gibson
bschaffer@prosek.com/cgibson@prosek.com
+1 212 279 3115

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business was founded in 1783. Today, Man is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a
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