International Asset Management

International Asset Management

International Asset Management (IAM) was founded in London in 1989, predating most of the European fund of hedge funds industry. The firm emerged when the concept of accessing hedge funds through a managed portfolio was novel, positioning itself as an early intermediary between alternative managers and investors seeking diversified exposure without the burden of direct due diligence. IAM's strategy centers on selecting and blending third-party managers rather than operating direct investment teams. The firm has historically covered long/short equity, global macro, event-driven, and relative value strategies within its hedge fund portfolios. On the private markets side, it extends the multi-manager approach to private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure funds. This architecture makes IAM a pure allocator: its investment committee evaluates external GPs, negotiates fee terms at institutional scale, and monitors correlation risks across the blended portfolio. Team size and current assets under management are not publicly disclosed. The firm operates from its London headquarters, with no confirmed additional offices. In recent years, many European fund of funds have consolidated or been absorbed by larger platforms, a pressure IAM has navigated without public restructuring announcements. The firm's survival since 1989 suggests a stable, likely relationship-driven client base rather than a growth-at-all-costs model. IAM's structural differentiator is its status as one of the few remaining independent European fund of funds with a track record exceeding three decades. In an industry where manager selection platforms have increasingly been acquired by banks, insurers, or US consolidators, an independent multi-strategy fund of funds headquartered in London is now an outlier. That independence eliminates the product-placement conflicts that arise when a fund of funds sits inside a larger asset-gathering firm, preserving a purer alignment between the manager research team and the end investor.