Düsseldorf, Germany
Founded: 1998
AUM: $26.2 billion (05/01/09)

Headquartered in Düsseldorf, WestLB Mellon Asset Management offers clients both core and specialist products from its investment management offices around the world.  They have a distinct investment philosophy and process that combines fundamental bottom-up security selection with disciplined quantitative analysis. This adaptable approach has yielded consistent results for investors. WestLB Mellon manages equity, bond and balanced mandates as well as convertibles, private equity and multi-manager strategies.

WestLB Mellon Asset Management does not offer services in the U.S. This website does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any of the firm's services or funds to any U.S. investor, or where otherwise unlawful.

WestLB Mellon Asset Management is a 50:50 joint venture between The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and WestLB AG.

WestAM was established in its current form in 1998, when the institutional asset management activities of WestLB were combined into a single business unit and named WestAM. Since then, WestAM has grown organically and by acquisition. However, the experience of WestLB in institutional asset management dates back to 1969.