Active management

Despite growing to about $1.1 trillion in AUM, senior executives made a series of bets to keep pace in a changing industry that have yet to pay off.

The fast money has more than three times the impact on equity valuations than long-term investors like pension funds, according to a recent paper.

The firm announced plans in March to acquire $200 million of its stock and has been in the market on average once every three trading days since.

Some of the industry’s biggest players are taking a wait-and-see approach as active, non-transparent funds take their crucial first steps.

Leveraging big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence will extend stock selection beyond its current capabilities, according to Procure Holdings President Bob Tull.

Here's how the largest groups have fared during unprecedented market activity.

Still, clients continue to invest their assets into the industry’s cheapest funds and are saving billions as a result.

"It's now June and if you’ve been on a deserted island for the last five months you couldn’t have fathomed the movements we’ve seen," an expert says.

Wild market swings have given many active managers a rare respite after a decade-long battle against the rise of passive investing.

The asset manager plans to leverage Precadian’s ActiveShares product, which requires funds to publish an indicative value of its holdings every second.