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Executive Summary

This report provides detailed information from continental European institutional investors on key trends in the asset management industry.

Methodology

The 24th annual research study covers the largest continental European corporate, public, and industry-wide defined benefit, defined contribution and hybrid pension funds, banks (including Sparkassen in Germany), foundations and churches, insurance and reinsurance companies, sovereign pension reserve funds and other non-pension institutional investors including official institutions, central banks, monetary authorities, sovereign wealth funds, and supra-nationals.

For all markets, interviewed institutional investors have externally-managed assets of over €100 million. This includes larger markets such as Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and France and smaller markets such as the Nordics, Italy, Iberia, Belgium, Austria, and Ireland. Total assets captured in Coalition Greenwich’ Continental Europe research are just over €5.5 trillion.