The Investment Association is the trade body that represents UK investment managers.
Our 200 members collectively manage over £5.7 trillion on behalf of clients in the UK and around the world.
- The Investment Association promotes UK investment management, which is the largest industry of its kind in Europe and the second largest in the world.
- The industry is a significant exporter for Britain, representing over 6% of total net exports over the past ten years, and it employs roughly 35,000 people.
The Investment Association supports their member firms, which are governed by laws and regulations in the UK, Europe and internationally and produces daily circulars on legal and regulatory developments and creates guidance enabling UK investment managers to build effective business structures.
The Investment Association also engages actively with policymakers and other stakeholders in the UK and around the world to ensure that our industry remains among the world’s most competitive.
They shape the investment landscape to ensure that their members are able to deliver the best outcomes for their clients. This includes spearheading initiatives to ensure best practice in our industry and engaging in the public debate surrounding our industry and its growing importance amid the rising Age of Asset Management.
The Investment Association responds to dozens of consultations each year on behalf of its members, on issues ranging from the tax environment to the structure of investment funds.
The Investment Association is structured into three core divisions, enabling them to cover the entire investment chain.
- Sustainable investments and capital markets, which makes investing work well for all and helps the industry to support the economy with stable, long-term finance, ensuring investors have access to fair and effective markets and embedding the highest standards of sustainable governance in UK Plc.
- Products and services, helping the industry to deliver clients’ financial goals and promoting the value of investing for the public good, assisting firms in meeting high standards of service and delivery and shaping the UK, EU and global regulatory and policy agenda so firms are able to provide on a cost-effective basis the products and services that meet clients’ needs.
- Business support and promotion: helping the member firms to thrive, the division promotes the asset management industry’s interests, helping firms to navigate the regulatory and tax landscape and ensuring that the UK is the country of choice for locating asset management businesses.
The Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) and the Investment Association supported the for the creation of the Introduction to Investment Qualification and they both recommend it as part of an induction programme taken by all new employees, irrespective of job title.
Check the Investment Association Training Scheduled Programmes and all Investment advisor jobs.
To find out more about the work of The Investment Association, you can call the 020 7831 0898 or email for more information at enquiries@theia.org
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