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Deals to add scale, and acquisitions by banks likely, Fitch says.<\/p>\n
Consolidation in the European investment management sector is set to ramp up, amid intensifying competition and shifting distribution trends, says Fitch Ratings.<\/p>\n
In a new report, the rating agency said that it\u2019s forecasting significant merger-and-acquisition (M&A) activity among asset managers. Banks may buy up firms too, as they seek to deploy capital on stable, fee-generating businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cBanks\u2019 appetite to acquire investment managers will stay high as they seek fee income with low capital consumption ahead of lower interest rates and Basel III endgame rules,\u201d it said. \u201cThis points to bolt\u2011on deals in asset and wealth management, especially for large and diversified banks pursuing revenue diversification away from net interest income.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the same time, Fitch said that it expects increased M&A among asset managers in a search for added scale, which enables them to, \u201cdefend margins, cut costs and compete for net new money flows.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fund managers that, \u201cfocus on commoditized mass retail and institutional offerings or with less diversified product sets are more likely to be targets,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n Competition for distribution is intensifying too, the report noted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe rise of non\u2011traditional products \u2014 including long\u2011term asset funds and European long\u2011term investment funds that are accessible to retail investors \u2014 is drawing alternative managers into high\u2011net\u2011worth channels historically led by traditional investment managers and banks,\u201d it said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Against that backdrop, Fitch said that it expects more mergers between traditional and alternative managers, as they seek to, \u201cbroaden offerings without duplicating costly distribution build\u2011outs.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deals to add scale, and acquisitions by banks likely, Fitch says. Consolidation in the European investment management sector is set to ramp up, amid intensifying competition and shifting distribution trends, says Fitch Ratings. In a new report, the rating agency said that it\u2019s forecasting significant merger-and-acquisition (M&A) activity among asset managers. Banks may buy up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-rubriki"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Investments-1-1000x445.webp",1000,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Investments-1-463x348.webp",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Investments-1-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Investments-1.webp",1000,667,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}