There is nothing like a crisis to sort the sheep from the goats, so the financial and political turmoil of the last three years made it easy to choose the 10 most influential asset managers as part of the FN100, our wider list of the 100 most powerful people in European financial markets.

We gave Standard Life Investments' chief executive Keith Skeoch the top slot for his leadership in an area that has become something of a bête noire for the asset management industry over the last two years - company stewardship.