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Grow Your Investments Through Asset Managers
By Goddy Egene

This is achieved through a consistent review of market trend, performance of each stock and how all the investment windows are faring in terms of yield to determine on a continuous note when to take position or exit.

The watchword of an asset manager and its primary objective is to grow the clients wealth/assets.
On the other hand, a broker/dealer is expectedly to be more interested in as many deals as possible can be generated on the floor.

He adds that small and medium level investors, have a lot to benefit from asset managers.

�€œOften, this segment of players is left with the option of patronising marginal operators in the market. By implication, they are exposed to the risk of few elements that perpetrate unprofessional acts. But through asset managers, small investors can have access to reputable dealing houses where shareholders or market players can entrust their transactions.

The Index Asset boss explains that asset managers are institutional players that engage the services of the best of dealing firms to execute their stock market mandates.

�€œThese dealing firms are not accessible to all market segments because of the minimum volume of transactions required to engage their services. Strategically, small and medium players can access these big operators by leveraging the asset manager window at no extra transaction cost, he said.



According to him, asset managers helps to grow investment by packaging wide range of collective investment schemes in which both high net worth individuals and modest players can participate and benefit from a balanced investment portfolio.

�€œIn all, it is good to go through asset managers more importantly when it is done at no additional transaction cost. Clients would have the benefit of professional advice on various investment decisions both in the money and capital market among other investment windows as a going concern, he said.

To the Managing Director of DEAP Capital Management and Trust Limited, Mr. Emmanuel Ugboh, using an asset manager is very necessary especially when you are just beginning to invest or planning for retirement.

According to him, some asset, portfolio managers have good research departments, which they apply to deliver better value to investors.

�€œAnother major advantage of using asset manager is the guarantee of a particular return. This means that no matter the state of the market, the manager will ensure that the investor gets the promised return with the principal, he said.
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