Northern Trust, UMB Financial and State Street are the three US commercial banks best placed to build retail businesses as a result of their management of top-performing funds, according to research by Putnam Lovell NBF, the investment bank.
The research, covering 35 banks, confirms that investors are keenest to back funds which boast strong long-term performance and that, if anything, the bear market has increased the attraction of top performing managers to investors.