Asset-Management Consolidation & the Race for Permanent Capital

Asset-Management Consolidation & the Race for Permanent Capital | Who Owns the Balance Sheet

Singapore's UOB is walking away from making investment products to concentrate on selling them. That choice — capital-light, distribution-first — is the mirror image of the largest structural trade running through global asset management: the race to own manufacturing scale and, beneath it, permanent capital. This note maps who is seizing which end of the value chain, why the economics compel the split, and where the newly consolidated product goes next.

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