Waddell & Reed faces meaningful investment performance-related headwinds in the near to medium term.
It's been a difficult year for the U.S.-based asset managers, with the 12 firms we cover down close to 20% on average since the start of 2018, compared with a nearly 8% price gain for the S&P 500 index. While valuations have become depressed across the group, they've also bifurcated between perceived "haves"--wide-moat-rated BlackRock and T. Rowe Price and narrow-moat-rated Eaton Vance and Cohen & Steers--which are generating above-average rates of organic growth and operating margins (a...Waddell & Reed Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides investment management and advisory services, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to the Ivy Funds,Ivy Variable Insurance Portfolios, InvestEd Portfolios, Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund, and institutional accounts. The company also provides wealth management services, primarily to retail clients through Waddell & Reed, Inc. (W&R), and independent financial advisors associated with W&R, who provide financial planning and advice to their clients.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.
Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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