Visium Asset Management, LP

Visium Asset Management is a hedge fund sponsor based out of New York City. The company was founded in 2005 by Jacob J. Gottlieb, who is currently still with the company acting as its Managing Partner and CIO. Visium Asset Management also has locations in London and San Francisco and has 131 employees with 81 of them being investment professionals. The company utilizes a long short strategy, investing in the public equity markets of the United States. Visium Asset Management operates through focused independent teams who manage segregated portfolios in targeted strategies and asset classes. The company invests most heavily in the health care sector, which alone makes up over half of its total allocated assets, and also invests in the consumer discretionary, finance, information technology, materials, and energy sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. Visium Asset Management has over $14.8 billion in total assets under management spread across 34 accounts with 24 of the accounts being discretionary accounts, making up the bulk $14.4 billion of its held assets, and 10 accounts being non-discretionary accounts, making up approximately $450 million of the remaining assets. Both its total held accounts and total assets under management have been increasing in recent years, with its total number of accounts experiencing a threefold growth from four years ago and its total managed assets increasing significantly from $2.7 billion back in 2011 to well over five times that amount today. The company mainly caters to pooled investment vehicles, which alone makes up over two thirds of its total client base, and also provides its services to investment companies and corporations and other businesses. Visium Asset Management currently provides 6 private hedge funds through its internal business and one mutual fund through Visium Mutual Funds, its Visium Event Driven Fund.