Article: Manager assets up 11.8; Outsourcing, sovereign fund inflows help firms withstand second-half turmoil.(Money Management)

Byline: Douglas Appell

The 500 largest money management firms weathered a second-half spike in financial market volatility to post an 11.8% rise in worldwide institutional assets under management last year - to $27.5 trillion, Pensions & Investments' annual money manager survey shows.

Internally managed U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets, meanwhile, grew a more modest 4.5% to $11.3 trillion.

The latest gains paled in comparison to the previous year's 14.3% jump in worldwide institutional assets and 15% surge in internally managed U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets, in part because of weaker capital market returns.

For example, the Russell 3000 index rose ...

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