20/07/2015
Market in custom solutions for institutionals to reach USD3trn by 2020
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The market in customisable investment solutions aimed at institutional clients in the United States is expected to grow by over USD1trn in the next five years, according to a study conducted by Cerulli Associates (“Institutional Customer Solutions 2015: The Drive Towards Objectives-Based Solutions.”) “Assets in custom investment solutions have more than doubled since 2010 and their growth is expected to continue to be significant, with assets approaching the USD3trn line by 2020,” says Alexi Maravel, managing partner at Cerulli. The study seeks to explain how and why asset mmanagement firms, investment consultants and insurance companies are spending millions of dollars to build the necessary resources to supply investment strategies which are more adapted to the specific needs of institutionals. “These custom solutions have the potential to completely call into question certain practices of asset managers or consultants which are several decades old, which have hitherto been used to meet the investment objectives of institutionals,” says Maravel. “It is not surprising that companies which supervise custome asset solutions are fairly optimistic about the future.” In fact, those surveyed by Cerulli as part of this study have reported growth in their assets of over 58% in their personalized investment solutions over the past year. “In the same period, they have won an average of 13.4 mandates focused on ongoing custom investment solutions,” Maravel says.
