Previous Top 500 Asset Managers reports – Page 6
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Top 400 Asset Managers 2016: Global assets now €56.3trn
Assets managed by the leading global asset managers increased by nearly 12% over the course of last year, according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey. This is less than the 17.8% increase recorded over the course of 2014, although higher than 2013’s 8.9% increase.
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Top 400: Trends in Asset Management - Time for reinvention
Asset managers face an existential crisis as they confront the end of a six-year rise in asset prices. What does the future hold for the industry? Christopher O’Dea investigates
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Top 400: Investment Returns - The reality of new-world investing
The new world of ultra-low interest rates could be here to stay, so investors need to change the way they think about investing. Tapan Datta explains
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Top 400: Debt Build-up - Lifeline is becoming a burden
Asset managers can no longer rely on central banks to shore-up the markets, according to Amin Rajan and Pascal Blanqué
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Top 400: Changing times in China
The boom in China’s asset management industry should create opportunities for overseas investors, says Qin Xu
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Top 400: Liquidity-Risk Management - Managing fund liquidity in Europe
Regulators have turned their attention to addressing the European asset management industry’s handling of liquidity risk, writes Federico Cupelli
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Top 400: Multi-asset investing renaissance
Multi-asset strategies have many diversification benefits for investors in today’s challenging environment, according to Phil Edwards and Ben Lewis
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Top 400: Disruptive Technology - The four ‘Ds’ of disruption
JR Lowry believes that digitisation, de-risking, disintermediation and democratisation are transforming the asset management industry
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Top 400: A digital wake-up call
Investment firms have to compete with their conventional peers and fast-growing fintech start-ups when it comes to client communication, writes Catherine Doherty
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Top 400: Productivity - Improving the wider economy
The asset management industry should focus more on long-term value creation, says Andrew Ninian
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Top 400: Investor Trust - Overcoming the trust deficit
Paul Smith argues that investment managers have a responsibility to be good fiduciary managers and ethical participants in the financial markets
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Germany: Sector funds still controversial
Well over a decade after the introduction of Pensionsfonds and the Riester-Pension, Germany is weighing up significant change to boost coverage
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Top 400 Asset Managers 2015: Global assets top €50trn
Once again, IPE surveyed over 400 managers for this year’s study, canvassing end-2014 data in most cases. The results give a broad overview of the global asset management sector, with granular depth on European managers and institutional business
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Top 400: Investing for the future
Changing institutional investor thinking has profound implications for asset managers. Here, eight leading figures from six international organisations outline progress made on an initiative to realign institutional investment with long-term goals
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Top 400: Disruptive change - an end to the innovator’s dilemma?
The combination of technology and innovation like exchange-traded funds looks set to change some aspects of the asset management value chain, according to Amin Rajan and Subhas Sen
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Top 400: A better deal on fees
Fee structures are imperfect and may be poor value. Nick Sykes outlines ways they could be improved for institutional investors and investment managers
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Top 400: Managing talent in a new world
Tim Wright says agility and innovation will be crucial to attracting and retaining key personnel in the asset management industry
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Top 400: The fee music’s still playing – for now
The institutionalisation of European asset management and changing investor fundamentals could limit the future profitability of the asset management industry, says Alastair Sewell
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Top 400: Multi-asset – in search of opportunities
A complex and changing pensions market means responsiveness is key for asset managers, say Nigel Birch and Will Mayne
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Top 400: New perspective on equity strategies
Investors are waking up to the advantages of using equity strategies in portfolio construction to capture illiquidity, skill and style premia, according to Stuart Gray