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Watson Wyatt / Financial Times Global Alternatives Survey

Including the top 100 asset managers

During the Spring, Watson Wyatt, in conjunction with the Financial Times, conducted research into the world’s largest fund managers, by alternative assets managed on behalf of pension funds. The research covers five alternative asset classes: real estate; private equity fund of funds (PEFoF); fund of hedge funds (FoHF); infrastructure and commodities and includes rankings of the top managers in each area.

It shows that alternative assets managed on behalf of pension funds* by the world’s largest investment managers diminished by around 1 per cent to $817bn in 2008 compared to the year before. This contrasts with a 40 per cent increase in the amount of alternative assets pension funds invested with top managers during 2007, compared to 2006.

Now in its sixth year, this authoritative global ranking includes responses from 143 of the largest investment managers, including 206 entries across the various asset classes.

For more information and to access the research report, please click on this link.

* excludes direct investment in single strategy private equity funds and hedge funds, in other words only funds of funds in these areas have been included.