Sponsorship

GAM

GAM delivers active investment management to private clients, institutions, charities and intermediaries. Our goal is to produce outstanding results by providing clients with access to great investment talent throughout the world. As well as active management within funds, GAM uses active asset allocation in managed portfolios to meet clients’ diverse needs. Our funds and strategies cover a broad range of asset classes and currencies to cater for all market conditions.

GAM history

Gilbert de Botton founded GAM in 1983 with the purpose of providing access to the world’s finest investment talent. GAM became a pioneer of the ‘open architecture’ model of asset management and has expanded over the intervening years to become one of the world’s leading independent fund managers, employing more than 800 people globally.

GAM’s artistic heritage

GAM’s association with the visual arts originated with its founder, Gilbert de Botton, a visionary financier and well-known patron and leading collector of modern and contemporary art. De Botton was an important benefactor of Tate. As a trustee from 1985 to 1992, he helped to raise its international profi le, serving as founder chairman of both its International Council and of the Tate Gallery Foundation. He was a moving force, as well as a substantial patron, in the creation of Tate Modern, where one of the main galleries is named after him.

In October 1996, his widow Janet Wolfson de Botton, also widely renowned as a collector of contemporary art, donated 60 important works to the Tate Collection. Janet Wolfson de Botton has been closely involved with Tate for a number of years and was appointed a Trustee in 1992.

GAM continues to be a supporter of both Tate and the Royal Academy of Arts.

The GAM Arts Sponsorship Programme 2011 

Today we continue to support the international contemporary art scene through our arts sponsorship programme. The key objectives of GAM arts programme is to support galleries, foundations & art colleges, identify budding artists, and introduce young children to the joys of visual art. That’s why this year we are continuing that association by awarding the second GAM Gilbert de Botton Art Prize to a MA graduate from the Chelsea College of Art & Design. GAM has pledged financial support to Chelsea College, who have given their full commitment to the prize. GAM are also supporting Future Map this January. Other foundations, galleries and art projects we have supported this year include: City & Guilds of London Art School, Pallant House Gallery, The Coutauld Institute of Art, Whitechapel Gallery, Art Quest, and Calvert 22.

Find out more about GAM’s art sponsorship programme.