Top 20 Asset Management Firms by AUM

1) Blackrock

2) Vanguard Group

3) Fidelity Investments

4) State Street

5) Morgan Stanley

6) JPMorgan Chase

7) Goldman Sachs

8) Credit Agricole

9) Allianz

10) Capital Group

11) Amundi

12) BNY Mellon

13) UBS

14) Pimco

15) Edward Jones Investments

16) Deutsche Bank

17) Franklin Templeton 

18) Invesco

19) Natixis

20) Bank of America

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Based on the most helpful WSO content, BlackRock is indeed a major player in the asset management space. It manages nearly $10 trillion in assets under management, making it the largest asset manager globally. This is reflected in the list you've provided, where BlackRock is ranked at the top. Their significant AUM is a testament to their influence and presence in the market. If you're looking to dive deeper into BlackRock's operations, strategies, or career opportunities, the WSO forum has threads and discussions that can provide more insights.

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Your elite IB group couldn’t exit to a FO AM role if they wanted to unfortunately.

 
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Second, AM is essentially glorified PWM.

The terminology is intentionally muddied by the guys who are unsuccessful, but I disagree.  There is a world of difference between being an analyst for a minimally constrained fundamental active fund and being the Primerica rep selling variable annuities to senior citizens.  This list unfortunately lumps the two together.  You've got both wirehouses with no AM arms and pure play fund shops on this list.

Yeah, some of these aren't even worthy of the title PWM, you're looking at mass-affluent WM or even below, but working for a fund-shop can be a different animal.  I'm intentionally dragging out old names to keep myself clean for compliance, but Peter Lynch and Bill Gross worked in AM. 

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

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