Guggenheim Partners Announces Sale of Global Trading Platform to Investor Group

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Guggenheim Partners announced today the sale of Guggenheim Global Trading ("GGT"), a standalone multi-strategy trading platform based in Purchase, NY, to an investor group led by GGT management. The new business will operate under the name of Deimos Asset Management. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Deimos will retain the current senior management team of GGT, led by Loren Katzovitz and Patrick Hughes.  Mark Standish, former Co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets, will also join Deimos as a Managing Partner.

The investor group announced that Deimos Asset Management will be supported by an equity investment from Ares Management LP.

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