BHAM is regulated by the FCA and its sole business is to provide asset management services to the investment funds it is appointed to manage. BHAM does this in line with its regulatory obligations and to the highest professional standard.

The BH Entities have non-UK affiliates in Jersey, Geneva, New York, Austin, Paris, Hong Kong, Washington, Cayman and Singapore; none of which conduct business in the UK. BHAMSL is a corporate member of BHAM and provides services directly to BHAM.

As a supplier of asset management services, we operate in a sector which is at relatively low risk of modern slavery occurring. Furthermore, the majority of the countries in which our wider group operates are not ranked as high risk by the Global Slavery Index, and we do not have an extensive supply-chain. However, we remain alert to the risk, as shown by our ongoing commitment to combatting modern slavery.

It is the policy of the BH Entities to ensure its business and supply chains are free from modern slavery and human trafficking.

The BH Entities' HR Department carries out thorough checks in line with best practice and regulatory requirements before we employ a new member of staff and all of the BH Entities' staff are subject to range of protective policies, including:

The BH Entities only deal with suppliers of goods and services they believe to be reputable and carry out risk-based due diligence on its suppliers.

The BH Entities conducted a risk-based review of their suppliers. The main criteria used to evaluate suppliers included the origin of manufacture, the nature of services provided and the location where services are provided from. Where appropriate, the BH Entities undertook checks to confirm if identified suppliers have been named on international watch lists or have negative press associated with their business which may be relevant. The suppliers within scope of this review were able to demonstrate knowledge of the Act and their resulting obligations.

The BH Entities will continue to monitor potential risk areas identified in our supply chains.

The BH Entities expect their suppliers to adopt the same standards they meet themselves and will not deal with any organisation that they believe may be connected with slavery in any way.

The BH Entities' senior managers who are responsible for sourcing goods and services are aware of the need to be vigilant regarding the risk of modern slavery.

The BH Entities are also subject to the wider Responsible Investment Policy at a group level that seeks to ensure that it only undertakes transactions with counterparties that have adopted good governance policies and practices and, where relevant given the asset class, only invests in company securities that have good governance practices as this is central to the investment thesis.

The BH Entities will review the steps taken so far to identify any gaps and consider the effectiveness of our approach and to evaluate whether any aspect can be improved.

Furthermore, the BH Entities encourage employees to report any potential instances of modern slavery to management or externally through the Whistleblowing Policy.

The BH Entities will continue to be alert to the additional risk of modern slavery that may exist following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Statement will be reviewed annually and updated where necessary to reflect changes in circumstances and actual practice. This Statement has been reviewed and approved by Board of Partners of BHAM and the Board of Directors of BHAMSL.

Please contact Investor.Relations@brevanhoward.com to view the signed version of the Modern Slavery Transparency Statement for 2021/2022.

Signed by:

Craig Adams, Board Member,
on behalf of the Members of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP.

Ryan Matthews, Director,
on behalf of Brevan Howard Asset Management Services Limited.

The following disclosures are provided pursuant to the Pillar 3 disclosure rules as laid out by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) within section 11 of its Prudential Sourcebook for Banks, Building Societies and Investment Firms (“BIPRU”). The regulatory aim of the disclosures is to improve market discipline through additional transparency.

The prudential framework for investment management firms consists of three “pillars” under the Capital Requirements Directive which has been implemented by the FCA through the General Prudential Sourcebook (“GENPRU”) and BIPRU:

• Pillar 1 sets out the minimum capital requirements for the investment manager;
• Pillar 2 deals with the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (“ICAAP”) and the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process through which the investment manager and the regulator satisfy themselves as to the adequacy of capital; and
• Pillar 3 requires the investment manager to publish its objectives and policies in relation to risk management, and information on its risk exposures and capital resources.

The disclosures below are the required Pillar 3 disclosures and apply solely to Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP (the “Firm”). The disclosures do not apply to the funds managed by the Firm as described below, which are exposed to different risks. Unless otherwise defined, capitalised terms used herein have the meanings given to them in BIPRU. The disclosures reflect the arrangements and financials of the Firm as at 12 July 2021 unless otherwise indicated.

The Firm is an investment manager based in London, United Kingdom, and is incorporated in England and Wales as an English Limited Liability Partnership. The Firm is a solo UK entity authorised and regulated by the FCA in the United Kingdom to conduct investment management business. The Firm is a BIPRU firm without retail clients, and does not hold regulatory permissions to manage or hold client money or client assets.

The Firm is authorised as a full scope UK Alternative Investment Fund Manager (“AIFM”) and acts as the AIFM for certain AIFs. The Firm also acts as an investment manager for a number of other AIFs for which Brevan Howard Capital Management Limited (“BHCM”), which is based in Jersey, is the AIFM. The Firm also provides certain other services to the wider Brevan Howard group, including marketing services.

The Firm does not have regulatory permissions to:

The information contained in this document has not been audited by the Firm’s external auditors and does not constitute any form of financial statement and must not be relied upon in making any judgement on the Firm.

BIPRU Pillar 3 rules (BIPRU 11.3.5R and BIPRU 11.4.1R) provide that Pillar 3 disclosures are only required where the information would be considered material to a user relying on that information to make economic decisions.

BIPRU Pillar 3 rules (BIPRU 11.3.6R and BIPRU 11.3.7R) provide that firms may omit information where the information is regarded as proprietary or confidential.

The Firm’s governance arrangements are headed by the Board of Partners (the “Board”).

The Board operates as the governing body of the Firm. It meets on a quarterly basis and on an ad hoc basis if circumstances so require, and is responsible for the day to day running and oversight of the Firm. The Board reviews, amongst other things, the level of fund capital and risk limits allocated to individual traders, the Firm’s financial information (such as monthly accounts, regulatory returns, and audited year end accounts), marketing activity, HR matters, the information technology environment, the ICAAP, internal and external audit reports and related recommendations, operational risk and compliance reports, status reports from departmental heads and oversees any relevant outsourcing that has been undertaken by the Firm.

A representative of the Board sits on each of the Firm’s management committees which report into the Board. This provides assurance to the Board that relevant items are being identified and reviewed and that items which are material in light of the Board’s risk appetite are reported to the Board. In addition, and where relevant, the committees provide appropriate written reports detailing any issues for escalation to the Board. Individual Board members also provide positive assurance at the meetings that there are no other material items to report or escalate from their respective departments or from their reporting lines.

The Board adopts a ‘3 lines of defence’ model. Heads of Department and relevant staff of the respective front office and supporting infrastructure areas have primary responsibility for managing and mitigating the risks specific to their area. The risk management practices and processes in place at this level constitute the ‘1st line of defence’. The ‘2nd line of defence’ is held by the relevant control functions (Risk, Legal and Compliance) and the Firm’s Valuation Committee and BHCM’s Operational and Business Risk Committee. The management committees are responsible for oversight and monitoring of the key risks facing the Firm. The ‘3rd line of defence’ is ultimately performed by the Board supported by the other Brevan Howard group management committees including BHCM’s Audit Committee. BHCM’s Audit Committee in particular provides independent oversight of Brevan Howard risk management, control and governance processes. BHCM’s Audit Committee is composed of non-executive members and meets on a quarterly basis.

The Board is responsible for determining the risk appetite for the Firm. The Firm has established a risk management framework to identify, measure, monitor, report and mitigate risks. Risks identified through the operation of the risk management framework are assessed as part of the Firm’s ICAAP and Pillar 2 processes.

The risk management framework sets out the responsibilities and escalation procedures for the identification, monitoring, and management of risks. Specific personnel are assigned responsibility for the risks across the Firm’s business units. The Board takes overall responsibility, with the assistance of Risk, Compliance and control functions, for identifying material risks to the Firm and implementing appropriate mitigating controls.

Risks and mitigating controls are periodically reassessed, taking into account the Firm’s risk appetite. Actions are taken to improve the control framework when risks are identified which fall outside of the Firm’s risk appetite, or when weaknesses are identified in the Firm’s mitigating controls.

BHCM’s Audit Committee approves an internal audit plan setting out the areas of the Brevan Howard business to be audited, approves the scoping of audits and appoints relevant persons or firms to perform the reviews. Results and findings of audit reviews are presented to BHCM’s Audit Committee and, where, appropriate, to any other committees or management boards including for example the Board.

The Firm’s ICAAP includes an assessment of the design and performance of the internal controls in place to mitigate risks, the probability of the risk occurring, the potential financial and reputational impact, and the adequacy of the Firm’s capital base.

The Board formally reviews and approves a finalised ICAAP document on at least an annual basis (or more frequently if there are material changes to the Firm’s business model and risk exposures). The Board, as part of its review of the ICAAP, sets the Firm’s risk appetite, validates that the Firm’s key material risks have been considered and assessed, and validates the stress testing scenarios.

The Pillar 2 capital requirements of the Firm are determined through a range of methods including scenario analysis of extreme events and stress testing within the ICAAP.

As a BIPRU firm, the Firm maintains sufficient capital to meet its regulatory capital requirements and takes a prudent approach to the management of its capital base. The amount and type of capital resources of the Firm as at 12 July 2021 are set out in the table below:

The adequacy of the capital held by the Firm is assessed regularly, and at least annually, as part of the ICAAP framework and is subject to approval by the Board. The most recent ICAAP (and Pillar 2) review was completed in May 2021.

As a BIPRU firm and in accordance with GENPRU 2.1.45R, the Firm is required to calculate its variable regulatory capital requirements as the higher of:

• the sum of the market and credit risk requirement, and
• the Fixed Overhead Requirement (“FOR”).

The Firm has calculated its FOR in accordance with the rules and guidance set out in GENPRU 2.1.53R to GENPRU 2.1.59G, which amounts to £10.25 million. The credit and market risk capital requirements of the Firm amount to less than the FOR. Therefore, the overall Pillar 1 capital requirement of the Firm is the FOR of £10.25 million.

The Firm has adopted a remuneration policy that complies with the requirements of the FCA’s Senior Management Arrangements, Systems and Controls Sourcebook (“SYSC”). Of particular relevance, chapters SYSC 19B and C sets out the BIPRU Remuneration Code and related guidance on proportionality.

As a BIPRU firm (that has no other BIPRU firms within its corporate group), the Firm falls within proportionality level 3 under the BIPRU Remuneration Code regime. The Firm has concluded that, on the basis of its size and the nature, scale and complexity of its legal structure and business, it does not need to appoint a distinct remuneration committee. Instead, the Board sets and oversees compliance with the Firm’s remuneration policy, including reviewing the terms of the policy on at least an annual basis.

The Firm currently sets the variable remuneration of its staff in a manner which takes into account individual performance, performance of the individual’s business unit and the overall results of the Firm. As permitted for firms falling within proportionality level 3, the Firm takes into account the specific nature of its own activities (including the fee-based nature of its revenues) in conducting any ex-ante risk adjustments to awards of variable remuneration and, given the nature of its business, has dis-applied the requirement under the BIPRU Remuneration Code to make ex-post risk adjustments.

The Firm only has one “business area”, which is its investment management business. All of the Firm’s Code Staff fall into the “senior management” category of Code Staff (rather than the “risk taker” category) for the purposes of the BIPRU Remuneration Code. During the reporting year 2020 the Firm’s Code Staff totalled 11, all of whom were deemed to be performing a ‘Significant Influence Function’.

The aggregate remuneration awarded to the Firm’s Code Staff during the financial year ending on 31 March 2021 in respect of the 2020 performance year was £61.9 million.

“Personal information” is any information that can be used to identify you or that we can link to you and which we have in our possession or control.

We will collect and process the following personal information about you:

We will process personal information that you give to us including when you email us or contact us through various channels as follows:

Accessing our website: In accessing our website, especially through the password protected investor login portal, the information that you provide may include your full name, title, telephone number, geographical location, email address and content, date and time of your email correspondence and information about your employer or your business.

Contacting our Investor Relations, Marketing or other teams: When contacting us to obtain information about our funds or our firm, we are required to obtain certain personal information as outlined above to meet regulatory obligations in relation to client classification and know your customer requirements. We store this information in our Client Relationship Management system.

We may do the following with your personal information:

Also, we may collate, process and share any statistics based on an aggregation of information held by us provided that any individual is not identified from the resulting analysis and the collation, processing and dissemination of such information is permitted by law.

We rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal information, namely:

We share personal information with our international offices. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to locations outside Europe as well as within it for the purposes described above.

We may also share your personal information outside the Firm. This may include:

Where we transfer your personal information outside Europe, we will ensure that it is protected and transferred in a manner consistent with legal requirements applicable to the information. This can be done in a number of different ways, for instance:

In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal information outside Europe. In all cases, however, any transfer of your personal information will be compliant with applicable data protection law.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal information when it is transferred outside Europe (including a sample copy of the model contractual clauses) by contacting us using the details set out below.

How long we hold your personal information for will vary and will depend principally on:

We will ensure that the personal information that we hold is subject to appropriate security measures.

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you and you can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details set out below.

These rights include:

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure or processing of your personal information or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please contact us at IR@brevanhoward.com.

Cayman funds

Brevan Howard Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Asia Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Asia Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Multi-Strategy Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Multi-Strategy Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard AH Fund Limited

Brevan Howard AH Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard AS Macro Fund Limited

Brevan Howard AS Macro Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Greek Opportunities Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Greek Opportunities Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Global Volatility Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Global Volatility Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard MB Macro Fund Limited

Brevan Howard MB Macro Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard US Rates Opportunities Fund Limited

Brevan Howard US Rates Opportunities Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Alpha Strategies Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Alpha Strategies Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard FG Macro Fund Limited

Brevan Howard FG Macro Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard TN Macro Fund Limited

Brevan Howard TN Macro Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Special Opportunities SPC for the account of each of its segregated portfolios

Brevan Howard Systematic Research & Technologies Master Fund Limited

Brevan Howard Digital Asset Multi-Strategy Fund Limited

Nova Digital Opportunities Fund Limited

Nova Digital Opportunities Master Fund Limited

BH Digital Asset Digital Asset Fund (I) Limited

BH Digital Asset Master Fund Limited

BH Digital Opportunities Fund I Limited

BH Digital Liquid Trading UK Vehicle I Limited

BH Digital Liquid Trading UK Vehicle II Limited

BH Digital SPC for the account of each of its segregated portfolios

Delaware funds (each an “LP Fund”)

Brevan Howard L.P.

Brevan Howard Asia Fund L.P.

Brevan Howard Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard AH Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard AS Macro Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard Greek Opportunities Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard Global Volatility Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard MB Macro Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard US Rates Opportunities Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard Alpha Strategies Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard FG Macro Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard TN Macro Fund, L.P.

Brevan Howard Digital Asset Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P.

Nova Digital Opportunities Fund, L.P.

BH Digital Asset Digital Asset Fund, , L.P.

BH Digital Venture Master Fund I LP

BH Digital Venture Master Fund II LP

BH Digital Liquid Directional Master Fund I LP

BH Digital Liquid Directional Master Fund II LP

BH Digital Liquid Trading Master Fund I LP

BH Digital Liquid Trading Master Fund II LP

General Partner

Brevan Howard General Partner Limited in its capacity as general partner of each LP Fund

The Fund’s place of business is at PO Box 309, Ugland House, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman Islands.

The Fund is a data controller in respect of your personal data for the purposes of data protection law, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the Cayman Islands’ Data Protection Law, 2017. The Fund is responsible for ensuring that it uses your personal data in compliance with data protection law.

State Street Fund Services (Ireland) Limited, the Fund’s administrator, is a data processor in respect of your personal data for the purposes of data protection law and will generally process personal data provided to it in connection with an investment in the Fund in accordance with the Fund’s instructions, and the Fund will generally act as the data controller of any such personal data.

This privacy notice applies to you if (i) you are an applicant for shares in the Fund, (ii) your personal data has been provided to the Fund in connection with an application for shares in the Fund by another person (such as where you are a director, partner, trustee, employee, agent or direct or indirect owner of an applicant) or (iii) the Fund otherwise uses your personal data. This privacy notice sets out the basis on which personal data about you will be processed by the Fund. Please take the time to read and understand this privacy notice.

The Fund might process the following personal data about you:

(a)        Information provided to the Fund by you or (if different) the applicant: This might include your name and address (including proofs of name and address), contact details, date of birth, gender, nationality, photograph, signature, occupational history, job title, income, assets, other financial information, bank details, investment history, tax residency and tax identification information. Such information might be provided in an application form or in other documents (as part of an application process or at other times), face-to-face, by telephone, by email or otherwise.

(b)        Information that the Fund collects or generates: This might include information relating to your (or an applicant’s) investment in the Fund, emails (and related data), call recordings and website usage data.

(c)        Information that the Fund obtains from other sources: This might include information obtained for the purpose of the Fund’s know-your-client procedures (which include anti-money laundering procedures, counter-terrorist financing procedures, politically-exposed-person checks, sanctions checks, among other things), information from public websites and other public sources and information received from the applicant’s advisers or from intermediaries.

Your personal data may be stored and processed by the Fund for the following purposes:

(a)        Assessing and processing applications for shares in the Fund and other share dealings, including performing know-your-client procedures, issuing and redeeming shares, receiving payments from and making payments to the applicant, calculating net asset value, and overseeing these processes.

(b)        General business administration, including communicating with investors, communicating with service providers and counterparties, accountancy and audit services, risk monitoring, the administration of IT systems and monitoring and improving products.

(c)        Compliance with legal and regulatory obligations and industry standards, including know-your-client procedures, the automatic exchange of tax information and legal judgments.

(d)        In respect of in information shared with the Brevan Howard Capital Management L.P. acting by its sole general partner Brevan Howard Capital Management Limited (the “Manager”) and its affiliates, their business activities relating to the Fund, such as investor relations, discussions with the Fund’s service providers and counterparties, decision-making in relation to the Fund, and business strategy, development and marketing.

The Fund is entitled to process your personal data in these ways for the following reasons:

(a)        If you are the applicant, you may enter into an investment contract with the Fund and some processing will be necessary for the performance of that contract, or will be done at your request prior to entering into that contract.

(b)        Processing may be necessary to discharge a relevant legal or regulatory obligation.

(c)        The processing will, in all cases, be necessary for the legitimate business interests of the Fund, the Manager, the Fund’s administrator or another person, such as:

(i)        carrying out the ordinary or reasonable business activities of the Fund, the Manager, the Fund’s administrator or other persons, or other activities previously disclosed to the Fund’s investors or referred to in this privacy notice;

(ii)        ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory obligations and industry standards, and preventing fraud;

(iii)        establishing, exercising or defending legal rights or for other purposes relating to legal proceedings; and

(iv)        ensuring the security of information systems.

(d)        In respect of any processing of sensitive personal data falling within special categories, such as any personal data relating to the political opinions of a politically exposed person, the processing will be subject to additional safeguards.

The Fund may from time to time, in accordance with the purposes described above, disclose your personal data to other parties, including (a) the Manager and its affiliates, (b) the Fund’s administrator and its affiliates, (c) professional advisers such as law firms and accountancy firms, (d) other service providers of the Fund, the Manager and the Fund’s administrator, including technology service providers, (e) counterparties and (f) courts and regulatory, tax and governmental authorities. Some of these persons will process your personal data in accordance with the Fund’s instructions and others will themselves be responsible for their use of your personal data. These persons may be permitted to further disclose the personal data to other parties.

Your personal data may be transferred to and stored by persons outside the jurisdiction or area in which it is collected”), and in particular may be transferred to and stored by affiliates or service providers of the Fund or the Fund’s administrator outside either the EEA or the Cayman Islands.

Where personal data is transferred outside the jurisdiction or area in which it is collected, the Fund will ensure that the transfer is subject to appropriate safeguards or is otherwise permitted under applicable law. For example, in the context of personal data collected in the EU, the country to which the personal data is transferred may be approved by the European Commission, the recipient may have agreed to model contractual clauses approved by the European Commission that oblige them to protect the personal data, or the recipient may be located in the United States and be a certified member of the EU-US Privacy Shield scheme

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the jurisdiction or area in which it is collected, including a copy of any standard data protection clauses entered into with recipients of your personal data, by contacting the Fund using the details set out under “Contacting the Fund” below.

The provision of certain personal data is necessary for shares in the Fund to be issued to any applicant and for compliance by the Fund and its service providers with certain legal and regulatory obligations. Accordingly, if certain personal data is not provided when requested, an application for shares might not be accepted or shares might be compulsorily redeemed.

How long the Fund holds your personal data for will vary. The retention period will be determined by various criteria, including the purposes for which the Fund is using it (as it will need to be kept for as long as is necessary for any of those purposes) and legal obligations (as laws or regulations may set a minimum period for which the Fund has to keep your personal data).

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that the Fund holds about you. These rights include the following:

(a)         The right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data that the Fund holds about you.

(b)         In some circumstances, the right to receive some personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to request that the Fund transmits that data to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal data which you have provided to the Fund.

(c)         The right to request that the Fund rectifies your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

(d)         The right to request that the Fund erases your personal data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask the Fund to erase your personal data but the Fund is legally entitled to retain it.

(e)         The right to object to, and the right to request that the Fund restricts, its processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask the Fund to restrict, its processing of your personal data but the Fund is legally entitled to continue processing your personal data or to refuse that request.

(f)         The right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator (details of which are provided below) if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by the Fund.

You can exercise your rights by contacting the Fund using the details set out under “Contacting the Fund” below. You can find out more information about your rights under applicable EU data protection law by contacting an EU data regulator such as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, or by searching their website at ico.org.uk. You can also find out more information about your rights under applicable Cayman Islands’ data protection law by contacting the Cayman Islands’ Ombudsman, the data regulator in the Cayman Islands, or by searching their website at https://ombudsman.ky/.

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure, transfer or processing of your personal data or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please address questions and requests to investor.relations@brevanhoward.com.