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An audience with Hermes’ Saker Nusseibeh: ‘The US market is littered with bodies’

With buyers circling Hermes Investment Management, its chief executive calmly weighs in on asset management's woes

An audience with Hermes’ Saker Nusseibeh: ‘The US market is littered with bodies’
Photo: Danilo Agutoli

The news in early December that four asset management firms have emerged as potential bidders for a stake in Hermes Investment Management puts some question marks over the future of the firm — and its chief executive, Saker Nusseibeh.

A spokeswoman for Hermes declined to comment on the sale by the BT Pension Scheme. But when I spoke to Nusseibeh a few weeks prior to the story breaking, he was adamant that he was in it for the long run.

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