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Asset Management

Asset management is the term usually given to describe companies which run collective investment funds.

The following is Global Investor’s 2005 ranking of the top 10 investment managers by assets under management:[4]

Rank Company Assets under management
(US$million)
Country
1. Barclays Global Investors 1,400,491 UK
2. State Street Global Advisors 1,367,269 US
3. Fidelity Investments 1,299,400 US
4. Capital Group Companies 1,050,435 US
5. The Vanguard Group 852,000 US
6. Allianz Global Investors 790,513 Germany
7. JPMorgan Asset Management 782,646 US
8. Mellon Financial Corporation 738,294 US
9. Deutsche Asset Management 723,366 Germany
10. Northern Trust Global Investments 589,800 US

Hedge Fund Managers

Custody services

Custody services and securities processing is a kind of 'back-office' administration for financial services. Assets under custody in the world was estimated to $65 trillion at the end of 2004.[5] Firms engaged in custody services include: