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LONDON and NEW YORK – March 28, 2022 – The newest edition of Broadridge Fund Brand 50 (FB50), an annual research study by global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) highlighting the world’s best-performing third-party asset management brands, reveals that it’s not only scale that matters to fund selectors.
The independent study, now in its 11th year, measures and ranks asset managers’ relative brand attractiveness based on fund selector perceptions: taking into account 10 brand attributes to reveal the top global and regional brands in Europe, the U.S. and APAC. FB50 also reveals the local market brand leaders in APAC and Europe’s most significant retail markets for third-party fund distribution. This is the latest study from Broadridge’s data and analytics business, highlighting the depth and breadth of its global market insights.
Key insights
“A second year of the pandemic meant that asset management firms needed to have their digital strategies firmly in place: while at the same time, key investment areas like ESG and thematic demonstrated the importance of innovation,” said Chris Chancellor, Vice President, Distribution Insight, Broadridge. “The growing prevalence of ESG in the asset management space redefined prospects for brand engagement and established a new kind of relationship between client and manager built along ideological lines.”
“There were a range of winners in the eyes of fund selectors, and no single strategy prevailed. Instead, groups saw success with a variety of different models: from the supermarket-style offerings of larger firms to smaller managers who built value propositions around excellence at storytelling or carved out a niche as smaller investment specialists.”
The top-five global brands, led by BlackRock, are all industry giants in terms of both assets under management and operational scale. However, the diversity of the firms that make up each of the regional top-50 lists demonstrates that it is not only scale that matters to fund selectors. Selectors’ favourite companies run the gamut from niche product and local market specialists to the major one-stop-shop providers.
Valued attributes
The attributes deemed most important by fund selectors varied across the regions.
Additional findings from this year’s study include:
Top-10 Global Asset Management Brands | ||
---|---|---|
Rank | Fund Group | |
1 | BlackRock | |
2 | JPMorgan AM | |
3 | Fidelity | |
4 | PIMCO | |
5 | Vanguard | |
6 | Franklin Templeton | |
7 | Schroders | |
8 | Goldman Sachs | |
9 | Morgan Stanley | |
10 | Invesco |
Top-10 Europe Asset Management Brands | ||
---|---|---|
Rank | Fund Group | |
1 | BlackRock | |
2 | JPMorgan AM | |
3 | Fidelity | |
4 | Pictet AM | |
5 | Robeco | |
6 | Amundi | |
7 | Schroders | |
8 | Morgan Stanley | |
9 | PIMCO | |
10 | Nordea |
Top-10 U.S. Asset Management Brands | ||
---|---|---|
Rank | Fund Group | |
1 | BlackRock | |
2 | Vanguard | |
3 | Capital Group | |
4 | Fidelity | |
5 | JPMorgan AM | |
6 | PIMCO | |
7 | T. Rowe Price | |
8 | Goldman Sachs | |
9 | Franklin Templeton | |
10 | Dimensional Fund Advisors |
Top-10 APAC Asset Management Brands | ||
---|---|---|
Rank | Fund Group | |
1 | BlackRock | |
2 | JPMorgan AM | |
3 | Fidelity | |
4 | AllianzGI | |
5 | Alliance Bernstein | |
6 | Franklin Templeton | |
7 | Schroders | |
8 | Nomura AM | |
9 | Vanguard | |
10 | PIMCO |
Asset managers, consultants and other industry stakeholders interested in receiving the in-depth Broadridge Fund Brand 50 analysis can make their request via the Fund Brand 50 information page.
About the research
The Broadridge Fund Brand 50 report is an annual study monitoring the influence of brand on third-party fund selection. The study is based on intensive interviews with more than 1,200 of the most significant fund selectors in Europe, the U.S. and APAC. Fund selectors name their top-three suppliers across 10 brand attributes, which include appealing investment strategy, client-oriented thinking, innovation and solidity. These answers, as well as commentary from other preference questions, are collated using statistical analysis and transformed into a ‘Total Brand Score’, on which groups are ranked.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) is a global technology leader with the trusted expertise and transformative technology to help clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow. We power investing, governance, and communications for our clients – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.
Our technology and operations platforms process and generate over 7 billion communications per year and underpin the daily trading of more than $10 trillion of securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.
For more information about us, please visit www.broadridge.com.
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