Amplify Issue 4: Meet the 10 managers running $275bn

by Will Robins | Jun 24, 2022 | Newsletters

Catch up on this week’s newsletter, also including features on gender balance at Amundi and a report on how Vanguard launched its multi-asset ESG fund.

More issues

Amplify Issue 30: The fund groups topping the tree

We analyse which groups have had the biggest inflows and outflows in 2022, look at managers achieving their first AAA ratings, and hear from Rob Kyprianou on why regulation gets it back to front.

Amplify Issue 29: Red hot: 2022’s private market hiring spree

2022 has been a hot year for private markets, but are asset managers putting the brakes on their expansion efforts? Plus, we look at how the bear market has affected launches this year and look at how firms can better communicate their brand values.

Amplify Issue 28: Fill your ESG product gaps

We hear from fund buyers on what they’re looking for from an ESG fund, find out what Neuberger Berman is plotting in the alts world, and learn the winners of Citywire’s Gender Diversity Awards.

Community

LinkedIn 100 Followers

Amplify – 220622

Citywire Amplify - asset management uncovered

If birthing a fund has become a traumatic event, then replacing veteran managers is surgery. This issue features two firms filling retiring managers’ places with fresh blood.

One very experienced manager not going anywhere is Charles Montanaro. The anthropologist explains that few of today’s investors experienced the inflation-fuelled uncertainty of the 1970s.

When filling positions, firms may look to the likes of Amundi, featured this week as a leader in manager gender balance.

Keeping our eye on product launches, Amplify zooms in on an innovative private assets fund that could open up the wealth management market, and once again goes behind the scenes of a launch: Vanguard’s SustainableLife multi-asset range.

We lead with 10 more names from our equities elite list: managers with the biggest AUMs who are seemingly beating the big fund curse. And don’t miss the ‘elite stock’ profiled by Citywire’s Fix the Future team.

Last issue, the majority (56%) agreed HSBC was right to suspend its head of responsible investing. This week we’re asking about UK government warnings of employers stoking inflation with pay increases. Let us know what you think.

HAVE YOUR SAY

Do you expect your salary to rise with inflation this year?

EQUITIES ELITE
Bigger and better: The elite managers running the most money

It’s hard enough to be a top-performing manager and even tougher when you run huge amounts of money. We reveal the 10 elite fund managers running the most AUM and take another dive into the data from our 421-strong elite managers list.

BEHIND THE FUND LAUNCH
The quest to build an ESG fund that will last a century

Vanguard product leads Andrew Surrey and Mark Fitzgerald reveal how they responded to ‘overwhelming pressure’ for an ESG fund by evolving a 93-year-old product. Amplify asks about the principles, process and regulatory relations behind last year’s SustainableLife multi-asset range launch.

A LIFE IN FUND MANAGEMENT

A LIFE IN FUND MANAGEMENT
Charles Montanaro: A seasoned warrior in the small companies jungle

Amplify takes a look back at the life and times of Charles Montanaro, anthropologist, long-term Citywire-rated fund manager and founder of Montanaro Asset Management. The veteran of 42 years in the fund industry also shares his advice to investors dealing with today’s new era of uncertainty.

PRIVATE ASSETS
New fund could fuel a European private assets boom

The race is on to reach wealth management clients and the giant pool of capital they offer. Blackstone hopes an innovative product will help it get ahead of the private markets pack by overcoming liquidity problems.

ALPHA FEMALE
Female managers run billions less than male peers

Balancing the number of male and female managers is only part of the battle: women are still being given much smaller portfolios to run. Amplify looks at one asset manager bucking that trend: Amundi, which is bringing balance to its funds.

MANAGER MOVES
Morgan Stanley rings the changes in emerging markets

The clock ticks on and asset managers bring on fresh faces as old ones move on. More hires and moves from around the world, including two firms strengthening their hand in Asia Pacific.

Elite stock: Wienerberger taps circular economy opportunity

The world’s biggest brickmaker has caught the eye of elite fund managers as it lays the foundations for a future using sustainable building materials. Citywire’s Fix the Future team investigates.

Fix the Future tracks the investments of the world’s best fund managers to find the companies changing the future.

Was this email forwarded to you?

Get in touch:
amplify@citywire.co.uk

Join the conversation online: LinkedIn