Asia's Top Money Managers Investment assets are flowing into Asia at a dizzying pace, and the region's money management firms are reaping the rewards. The 100 firms in our thirteenth annual ranking of the biggest money managers in Asia posted a 10.6 percent increase over their collective total assets one year ago, which is an accelerated rate over the previous year's 8.3 gain. Every country represented in this year's ranking experienced positive returns, but Japan’s Kampo (Postal Life Insurance Service) still towers above the rest of the Asian firms with $913 billion under management. (All figures in this ranking are self-reported, except where noted.) To view a specific firm's overall assets or its assets within a particular class, select the appropriate button to the right and then select the country where it is located.
Institutional Investor's 13th annual ranking of Asia's biggest institutional investors was compiled from a variety of sources, including questionnaires filled out by the institutions themselves, company Web sites and annual reports, and regulatory agencies. II researchers refined this data through follow-up faxes, e-mails and telephone calls. When offical data were unavailable, we obtained figures from actuaries, brokerages and consulting firms. Estimates are footnoted where used.
New York-based Associate Editor WeiQing Lu led the project, under the guidance of Director of Research Operations Group Sathya Rajavelu and Senior Editor Jane B. Kenney, with the assistance of Contributing Editor Donald Kirk in South Korea and Contributor Niraj Bhatt in India, as well as Researchers Winson Chan in Hong Kong and Katsuko Usami in Japan.