man group plc said tuesday that pretax profit in 2022 rose on higher management and performance fees and that it intends to repurchase more shares the active investment management firm said pretax profit stood at 745 million compared with 590 million in 2021 core net revenue rose 14 to 173 billion the companys assets under management fell to 1433 billion from 1486 billion while net inflows stood at 31 billion looking ahead there is a significant opportunity for active investment managers particularly those with the ability to offer alpha irrespective of the direction of prevailing market trends and in a liquid highly customizable format chief executive luke ellis said the board declared a final dividend of 101 cents a share bringing the total dividend to 157 cents a share the company intends to repurchase a further 125 million of shares after the sharebuyback program launched in december completes it said