Chicago Tribune – William Blair & Co., an employee-owned investment firm headquartered in Chicago, is acquiring the Winnetka-based hedge fund founded by former UBS money manager Brian Singer.
Singer, chief investment officer of his namesake firm, will join William Blair. Singer is the former head of global investment solutions and Americas chief investment officer for UBS Global Asset Management, where he helped oversee more than $200 billion in assets. He founded his firm in 2009 and nearly all of his firm’s workers came from UBS. His $200 million-asset firm also has offices in London and Zurich.
