A strong and representative sample was crucial to achieve the report’s ambitious objective of delivering an in-depth look at the industry from the inside.
This report is based on a survey of 1,950 buy-side professionals, including institutional fund managers, alternative fund managers and private wealth managers, almost 50% of whom identified themselves as being in and around the C-suite.
By job function, the largest cohort was in Portfolio Management (41%) and geographically the majority was based in Europe (54%), with meaningful responses also from the Americas and APAC.
The report also includes the views of investors in various different fields, ranging from Institutional Fund Management (45%) through Alternative Investment (including hedge funds, private equity, etc) (22%) and Private Wealth Management (17%).
