- Best Smart Beta Strategies
Asia Asset Management Journal, Best of the Best Awards, 2015
- Pensions & Investments Magazine’s 2017 Special Report on the Largest Money
Managers ranks Northern Trust among the top asset management firms in multiple categories, detailed below.
- Ranked by Markets Served
- 14th largest manager - worldwide assets1
- 12th largest manager - worldwide institutional assets2
- 5th largest manager - U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets
- 8th largest manager - defined benefit assets3
- 10th largest manager - defined contribution assets4
- 6th largest manager - sovereign wealth funds1
- 5th largest manager - central banks1
- 6th largest manager - endowment/foundation assets3
- 16th largest manager - sponsored exchange-traded funds1
- Ranked by Investment Strategy
- Cash: Largest Institutional tax-exempt assets managed internally3
- 6th largest manager - factor-based strategies1
- 3rd largest manager - passive international securities tax-exempt assets3
- 5th largest manager - indexed U.S. equity3
- 4th largest manager - indexed U.S. bonds3
- 16th largest manager - ESG principles1
- 17th largest manager - emerging markets equity3
1Total worldwide assets under management
2Worldwide institutional assets under management
3US Institutional, tax exempt assets managed internally
4US Institutional, tax exempt assets
Rankings are not indicative of future performance. Rankings based on total worldwide assets under management of $942.5 billion as of December 31, 2016. Pensions & Investments 2017 Special Report on Money Managers appeared in the publication’s
May 29, 2017, issue and online at www.pionline.com/researchcenter. Ranking information reprinted with permission, Pensions & Investments, copyright Crain Communications, Inc