The Components of Talent: Company Size and Financial Centres in the European Investment Management Industry

Journal article

As the centre for advanced financial services, and the complex array of services needed to invest beyond Europe’s borders, London dominates the European financial services industry. As in other global financial centres, there is a premium on talented investment managers, identified in the media as ‘star performers’. Investment companies rely upon such employees for risk-adjusted rates of return on the basis of asset-specific and/or style-specific investment strategies while protecting their clients against the risks occasioned by market uncertainty. Drawing upon frameworks from organizational ecology, this paper integrates the size of companies with the market for talent sectorially and geographically.

Authors: Clark, G

• Publication status: Accepted
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Journal: Regional Studies
• Acceptance date: 2015-06-30
• EISSN: 1360-0591
• ISSN: 0034-3404
• Language: English
• Keywords: organizations; Financial ecology; talent; portfolio managers; investment management