The institutionalisation of capital, consolidation of flows and oligopolies in asset management | Delilah Rothenberg and Denise Hearn

Market Narratives

This episode explores how the market structure has changed over the past decades to become more institutionalised. While institutional investors have been able to take advantage of their size to negotiate improved corporate governance reforms from companies, they are also under pressure to efficiently deploy large sums of capital, contributing to asset manager consolidation and, therefore, corporate consolidation. Such consolidation can have several negative impacts, such as squeezing out diverse and emerging fund managers and SMEs, monopsony dynamics, reduced innovation, and erosion of the quality and affordability of goods and services, and poor investment diversification opportunity, which in turn contributes to procyclical investment behaviour and increased systematic risk. The episode concludes with ideas for how institutional investors can de-consolidate their capital flows to contribute to a healthier real economy and market.

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