Principal Global Investors

Columbus Circle Investors is a Connecticut based asset manager and a hedge fund. They have more than $1 billion in AUM in their hedge funds. Their total AUM is more than $15 billion at the end of 2015. Their large cap strategy managed to beat its benchmark by 0.4 percentage points annually over the last 10 years. Mid-cap strategy outperformed its benchmark by 0.6 percentage points annually and small cap strategy outperformed by 3.7 percentage points annually over the last 10 years.

Principal Global Investors owned 95% of CCI at the end of 2014.