The Investment Association (IA)

  • The Investment Association (IA) champions UK asset management, supporting British savers, investors and businesses. Our 250 members manage £9.1 trillion of assets and the asset management industry supports 126,400 jobs across the UK.
  • Our members range from small, independent UK investment firms to Europe-wide and global players.
  • Our mission is to make investment better. Better for clients, so they achieve their financial goals. Better for companies, so they get the capital they need to grow. And better for the economy, so everyone prospers.
  • Our purpose is to ensure investment managers are in the best possible position to:
    • Build people’s resilience to financial adversity
    • Help people achieve their financial aspirations
    • Enable people to maintain a decent standard of living as they grow older
    • Contribute to economic growth through the efficient allocation of capital
  • The money our members manage is in a wide variety of investment vehicles including authorised investment funds, pension funds and stocks and shares ISAs.
  • The UK is the largest industry of its kind in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after America

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