Greetings,
This week, we released the most comprehensive data set available for India’s onshore wealth management scene.
In the same vein as our annual Asia AUM & RM League Table, we reveal India’s Top 20 wealth managers by assets under management and frontline firepower.
I won’t divulge too much here, except to say that the market continues to grow at a healthy rate, as evidenced by a 33% YoY increase in client assets managed by the Top 20 at the end of 2016.
Also worth noting is the fact that local setups, buoyed by lower operating costs and strong hiring of late, enjoy the ascendancy, dominating the India 2016 AUM League Table both in terms of slots held and assets managed (combined, domestic wealth managers account for almost two-thirds of the almost US$103 billion total).
So who tops the India 2016 AUM & RM Headcount League Tables?
- Kotak Wealth Management leads the pack in terms of AUM with US$15.3 billion (+59.3% YoY)
- Standard Chartered Private Bank is the top international player with US$7.8 billion (+21.9% YoY)
- IIFL Wealth & Asset Management has the most RMs with 218 (+9.0% YoY)
Head on over to our Insights page to view the complete data set.
Your Top Eight for the week follows.
Cheers
Sebastian Enberg
Editor
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India 2016 AUM & RM Headcount League Tables
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