Increased manpower helps with large funds

News Analysis

The larger funds on the market have four times the manpower than the small and medium groups

Resources may become an issue for small to mid-sized groups as they struggle to keep pace with the growing size of their portfolios. In the main larger investment houses tackle the issue of increased fund size with larger team input, roughly four times the size of teams backing the largest funds at smaller groups. Investment Week surveyed 15 large groups and 15 small and medium-sized fir ms, to compare the size of their largest funds, excluding investment trusts, as well as the size of team their managers have. For the benefit of the study, Investment Week has classified Credit Suisse, F...