Reuters – Long-haired art lover Pierre Lagrange is symbolic of the informal, star manager culture that Man Group is seeking to acquire with a $1.6 billion purchase of GLG.
The softly-spoken Belgian, co-founder and senior managing director at GLG, is well known for running the firm’s $1 billion European Long-Short fund, but will join a firm that has shied away from high-profile personalities in favour of the dominance of a so-called ‘black box’ trading system called AHL.
