Talk:Tetragon Financial Group

Undisclosed paid edits

I have added an {{undisclosed paid}} tag to this article because of extensive editing by a UPE sockfarm, please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Factsonlyplease39 for evidence. Users relevant to this page include: ReachingtheStars (talk · contribs) The article will need a thorough review ensuring notability, due weight, neutral language, and use of reliable sources before the tag is removed. Editing continued later using proxy IPs. MarioGom (talk) 15:20, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Updates and clarifications

Hi, I work for Tetragon Financial Group and have declared my COI. The article as it is currently written conflates a lot of varying information about different Tetragon entities. For the sake of encyclopedic clarity, I would like to propose some updates to this article, keeping the existing references, with the exception of where I add new references. In using primary sources, I rely on WP:ABOUTSELF to substantiate non-controversial information.

• Deletion of the "Awards" section, as all the awards were awarded to Polygon, a company supported by Tetragon, but not Tetragon itself. The citations included for each award mention Tetragon as a supporter of Polygon, but not as the recipient of the award.
• Updates to the lede reflect the current state of Tetragon. Suggest using this language:

Tetragon Financial Group Limited (Tetragon) is a Guernsey closed-ended investment company. Its non-voting shares are traded on the Euronext exchange in Amsterdam and on the Specialist Fund Segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The firm's investment objective is to generate distributable income and capital appreciation and it aims to provide stable returns to investors across credit, equity, interest rate and inflation cycles. Tetragon invests in a broad range of diversified alternative assets (including public and private equities and credit, including distressed securities and structured credit), convertible bonds, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure, bank loans, legal assets and TFG Asset Management, a diversified alternative asset management business.

The company's external investment manager is Tetragon Financial Management LP ("TFM"). Tetragon has offices in London and New York, and was founded on June 23, 2005.

• Reworking the History section to clarify details:

Tetragon was founded in 2005. It is registered in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, in the Channel Islands and headquartered in the United Kingdom. In 2007, Tetragon went public with an IPO, selling at $10/share, as an Amsterdam-listed closed-end investment company on Euronext.

In 2010, Tetragon acquired Lyon Capital Management LLC (LCM) and established a joint venture with John Carrafiell, Sonny Kalsi and Fred Schmidt of GreenOak Real Estate. In October 2012, Tetragon purchased Polygon Management (Polygon). In 2013, Polygon was listed as one of the 50 largest hedge fund managers in Europe by The Hedge Fund Journal. In 2014, Tetragon acquired Equitix, an investor, developer and long-term fund manager of infrastructure and energy-efficient assets in the UK. Equitix has more than $12 billion in assets under management. Also in 2015, Hawke's Point, an asset management company focused on the mining and resource sectors, was formed under the TFG Asset Management umbrella. In 2019, the GreenOak real estate joint venture was merged with Bentall Kennedy to create what is as of December 31, 2022, an $82.6 billion global real estate platform called BentallGreenOak; Tetragon remains a strategic investor in the business.

• Updates to the "Business model" section:

Tetragon has an investment portfolio with a NAV of $2.8 billion. TFG Asset Management is Tetragon's diversified asset management platform and as of December 31, 2022, had over $40 billion in Assets Under Management. TFG Asset Management is currently comprised of nine asset managers, including Polygon Acasta Partners, LCM, Equitix and BentallGreenOak.

Making these changes will enhance the accuracy of this article and eliminate confusion about Tetragon's component entities. Thank you very much! CC for Tetragon (talk) 08:34, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

References

Request for tag removal

Hello again. For the past few weeks, Paul W has helped clean up this article to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly about netural point of view. Promotional content has been removed, as has excessive information regarding other Tetragon entities and the Awards section; details about the company's history and business model have been clarified (see edit request above). As such, can you please remove the undisclosed paid editing tag from the article? Thank you CC for Tetragon (talk) 14:34, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Reply 2-AUG-2023

  Please consult assigning editor  

• It is recommended that, as a courtesy, you first try asking the editor who assigned the template — in this case MarioGom — in order to find out from them if it can be removed. Since they placed the template, they are in the best position to know whether or not the issues which caused its placement have been corrected. You may contact them directly by placing a new message on their talk page.
• In the unlikely event that you do not hear back from them after a reasonable amount of time, please reopen this request by altering the {{Edit COI}} template's answer parameter to read from |ans=y to |ans=n. Thank you!
  Regards,  Spintendo  12:00, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

CC for Tetragon: I have removed the tag, as well as removed some cruft and corporate puffery. The article still lacks reliable sources with significant independent coverage, so I'm not sure this article meets the notability criteria for companies though, and should probably be considered for deletion. MarioGom (talk) 17:30, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

CC for Tetragon: On another note: are you employed directly by Tetragon or do you work for an agency or some other intermediary? Note that you should disclose any affiliation that is related to these contributions, including intermediaries. Are you related in any way to Fiveblocks? Best, MarioGom (talk) 17:31, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi MarioGom, thanks for cleaning up the article and removing the tag. I'd be happy to look into additional coverage as needed. As for your question- I am a direct employee of Tetragon, and have been since 2022. Thanks again for your help, CC for Tetragon (talk) 08:20, 7 August 2023 (UTC)