Investment management is the specialized management of various securities (shares, bonds etc) assets (e.g. real estate), to meet particular investment goals for the benefit of the investors. Investors may be institutions (insurance companies, pension funds, corporations etc.) or private investors (both directly via investment contracts and more generally via collective investment schemes e.g. mutual funds). The term asset management is often used to refer to the investment management of collective investments, whilst the more generic fund management may refer to all forms of institutional investment as well as investment management for private investors. Investment managers who concentrate in advisory or discretionary management on behalf of private investors may often refer to their services as wealth management or portfolio management often within the context of so-called “private banking”.
The provision of investment management services includes fundamentals of financial analysis, asset selection, stock selection, plan execution and ongoing monitoring of investments. Investment management is a large and vital global industry in its own right responsible for caretaking of trillions of dollars, euro, pounds and yen. Coming under the remit of financial services many of the world’s biggest companies are at least in part investment managers and employ millions of staff and create billions in revenue. Fund manager refers to both a firm that provides investment management services and an individual who directs “fund management” decisions.
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