Top UK Asset Management Firms

Here is a list of the largest UK asset managers ranked by total global AUM. Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) is the largest fund manager responsible for more than US$1.8 trillion of assets under management. The firm was established in 1836 and employs about 10,000 people. Insight Investment, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, is the second largest UK asset manager by AUM.

Rank Company Total Assets under Management
(USD billion)
Balance sheet
1 Legal & General 1,846 06/30/2021
2 Insight Investment 974.6 03/31/2021
3 Schroders 923.8 03/31/2021
4 Prudential plc 767.5 12/31/2020
5 Standard Life Aberdeen * 638.8 12/31/2020
6 HSBC Global Asset Management 621.0 03/31/2021
7 M&G plc 504.8 12/31/2020
8 Aviva Investors 479.8 03/31/2021
9 Baillie Gifford 447.0 03/31/2021
10 Janus Henderson Investors ** 404.2 12/31/2020
11 Aegon UK 214.5 03/31/2021
12 Royal London Asset Management 202.1 03/31/2021
13 Ninety One 180.0 03/31/2021
14 Man Group 127.0 03/31/2021
15 Northill Capital LLP 95.1 12/31/2020
16 Walter Scott & Partners 94.8 03/31/2021
17 Ashmore Group 89.9 03/31/2021
18 Rothesay Life plc 85.5 12/31/2020
19 Investec 80.3 03/31/2021
20 Jupiter Fund Management 80.8 03/31/2021
21 Record Currency Management 80.0 03/31/2021
22 BlueBay Asset Management 75.0 03/31/2021
23 Pantheon Ventures (UK) LLP 65.9 12/31/2020
24 Newton Investment Management 63.7 03/31/2021
25 Mondrian Investment Partners 60.0 03/31/2021
26 Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) 59.6 03/31/2021
27 JO Hambro Capital Management 43.1 03/31/2021
28 Colchester Global Investors 42.0 03/31/2021
29 Artemis Fund Managers 39.2 05/31/2021
30 Savills Investment Management 25.0 03/31/2021
31 Veritas Asset Management *** 23.5 09/30/2020
32 Genesis Asset Managers 22.1 03/31/2021
33 Majedie Asset Management (MAM) 11.0 03/31/2021
34 Winton Group 7.3 12/31/2020

* Standard Life Aberdeen plc was created in 2017 from the merger of Standard Life plc and Aberdeen Asset Management.
** Janus Henderson Investors was formed from the merger of Janus Capital Group and Henderson Global Investors in May 2017.
*** Veritas Asset Management LLP is a subsidiary of New York-based AMG (Affiliated Managers Group Inc).