Asset Manager Outlook to 2025

Growing AUM but squeezed profitability: predicting the next seven years for asset managers.

Bloomberg, in partnership with Simmons & Simmons, conducted a joint survey of nearly 2,000 global buy-side professionals that unveils asset managers’ expectations for financial performance and wellbeing across the sector over the next several...

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Executive summary
4. Global AUM growth expectations in line with GDP
5. New products & markets set to drive AUM growth
6. Fee margin falls, opening up the ‘Fee Gap’
7. Cost reductions could cut to the core of asset management
8. Trade wars and global growth are key risk factors
9. Active investing to help tightrope fee margins
10. Millennial growth will drive asset class innovation
11. Conclusion: The road to 2025
12. Appendix
13. Thank you for reading Asset Manager Outlook to 2025