Investment Managers
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Understand the role of an investment manager in the securities market
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So the investment manager, another key player in the securities market, an investment manager looks after the assets on behalf of other individuals, whether those be cash assets, stocks, which is equities, bonds, commodities, alternatives, derivatives, any type of asset at all. Investment managers can be in charge of them now, as well as there being the different types of assets, there's also the different styles that an investment management might be working by there. There is the passive style of investment management where you're basically just tracking whatever happens overall in a market. There is the active style of investment management where you're trying to outperform what's happening in the market. And the total return style, you're not looking at income or anything like that, you're just looking for total increase of the equity. Then there is the niche investment manager. Now, these may be ethical investment managers, green investment managers, niche on religious ground type of investment management. Across all the different assets, these are the different styles that investment manager we'll be looking at, and we as a custodian, we need to think about how we can support the investment manager with all of these types of requirements.