Best Asset Manager winner: Goldman Sachs Asset Management

As a leader in its field, the GSAM was praised for its long-term commitment to the industry and high quality service.

Participants also recognised the company for its strong balance sheet and strict due diligence process, as well as its attention to detail.

GSAM is one of the world’s leading investment managers, with more than 2,000 professionals across 32 offices worldwide. Established in 1988, GSAM provides institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning asset classes, industries, and geographies.

The company currently has $935 billion assets under management and offers fixed income, money markets, public equity, commodities, hedge funds, private equity, and real estate solutions.

Second and third place were claimed by JP Morgan Asset Management and Black Rock.

GSAM was praised for its long-term commitment to the industry and high quality service.

As part of JPMorgan Chase & Co, which provides retail banking, investment banking and asset management services across the world, JP Morgan Asset Management is supported by a wealth of experience spanning 150 years, and was praised for its strong insurance knowledge and experience.

Black Rock—one of the world’s largest asset managers—serves both pension funds and insurers regularly, enticing clients with its global reach of 100 investment teams in 30 countries. It was commended for its efficiency at handling assets of the company and its excellent service.

General Re–New England Asset Management (GRNEAM) and Barclays were next in line receiving scores of 6.04 and 6.03.

Both companies were highly commended throughout, with special focus around reputation and service.

Barclays Wealth and Investment Management traces its history back to 1690 when John Freame and Thomas Gould started trading as goldsmith bankers in London’s Lombard Street, and was praised for its flexibility.

GRNEAM, a global investment advisor that specialises in offering capital and investment management services primarily to the insurance industry, received commendation for its professionalism.

The companies in the shortlists seen here were selected based on the first stage of the research, conducted via phone interviews and open online polls. Respondents were asked to name two companies they regard highly in this category. They were then asked to give details of why they had chosen these firms.

The shortlist for this category reflects the companies mentioned the most frequently.

The researchers then approached the market a second time and, using this shortlist presented in a random order, asked respondents to score each company out of ten based on how they perceive the quality of the products, services and expertise of each. It is the results of this part of the survey that are shown here.

More than 500 respondents took part in each part of the survey respectively.

The score shows the average score out of ten that each company received in stage two of the survey.

The shortlist was presented to respondents in a random order.