21st Jun 2007 12:00
Polar Capital Holdings PLC21 June 2007 21 June 2007 Polar Capital Holdings plc Notice of Preliminary Results and Analyst Presentation Polar Capital Holdings plc (the "Company"), the specialist asset managementgroup, expects to announce its Preliminary Results for the 12 months ended 31March 2007 on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007. There will be a presentation for analysts on the day of the results at 11.00 amLondon time at Financial Dynamics, Holborn Gate, 26 Southampton Buildings,London WC2A 1PB. A copy of the presentation will be made available on the Company's websitewww.polarcapital.co.uk from 7.30 am on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007. For those who are not able to attend the presentation, an audiocast of thepresentation will be made available on the Company's website from 9.00 am onWednesday, 27 June, 2007. For further information please contact: Financial DynamicsEd Gascoigne-Pees +44 20 7269 7132Felicity Murdoch +44 20 7269 7243 Notes to Editors: About Polar Capital Holdings plc Polar Capital was founded in December 2001 by Brian Ashford-Russell and TimWoolley who were previously responsible for the management of Henderson GlobalInvestors' technology funds. Caledonia Investments plc became a foundingshareholder and Polar Capital's corporate structure was established and receivedregulatory approval in January 2001. Mark Kary joined as CEO from Morgan Stanleyin April 2005 to lead the Company's next stage of development and in October2006 the Company entered into a seeding agreement with a subsidiary of XLCapital Ltd (NYSE:XL) which has committed to provide up to US$175m in investmentseed capital to support the launch of certain new funds. Today Polar Capital has a staff of 54 of whom 31 are investment professionalsmanaging 16 funds, one managed account and two advisory relationships. Thesefunds, which are aimed at institutional and professional investors, havecombined assets under management at 31 March 2007 of $3.4bn. Polar Capital'sfirst business unit focused on the technology sector, and subsequent recruitmentresulted in the establishment of the Japan and UK teams (2001), Europe (2003),Global Emerging Markets (2004), Utilities (2005), and Macro and GlobalOpportunities (2006). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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