The world's biggest bond investors include US asset management firms such as Blackrock and Pimco.
Targeting the children of the super-rich, therefore, has become a key strategy for private banks and wealth management firms, such as Barclays' wealth management arm, according to the research company, which runs a database of these individuals.
"Within trading and investment management, firms such as Aidiya and Sentient Technologies are pioneering AI trading programmes... to crunch huge amounts of data to recognize obscure patterns, which others have not identified," the authors of the Euromoney report write.
These units, which are run by insurance-management firms such as Marsh & McLellan, are allowed to sell a range of other insurance products around the EU.
More recently Marshall Wace, a London hedge-fund manager, also turned to Amsterdam to float its MW Tops fund, raising €1.5 billion ($2 billion) in the process.Until now, the most eye-catching listings in London have been those of fund-management firms, such as Man Group, a hedge-fund conglomerate which went public in 1994.
For now, Americans are only able to satisfy themselves with the initial public offerings of fund-management firms, such as Fortress Investment Group, which is reportedly aiming to raise around $635m by selling a small portion of its voting shares.Citadel, another big hedge fund, opted to raise capital recently via the bond markets.
But he foresees it being dominated by fund-management firms, such as his own Intellectual Ventures, collectively constituting a new alternative asset class that he calls "invention capital .The idea of raising money to invest explicitly in creating patents is not new, Mr Myhrvold notes: that is what Thomas Edison did.
Pittman claims he has little competition there, since other so-called knowledge management software firms, such as Autonomy and Verity, would likely license Grokker to add some visual pop to their software suites.
There are large management turnaround firms such as Grisanti, Galef & Goldress and Alvarez and Marsal, but they largely work with publicly held companies that are in serious financial trouble.
Murmur fills the gap between traditional management consulting firms such as Hay Group and Gallup that provide in-depth but costly research and much simpler platforms like SurveyMonkey that allow companies to quickly create surveys but don't provide context or analysis.
Pia Götze tells Next Wave that she learned about these types of jobs by attending workshops organized by management-consulting firms such as McKinsey and the Boston Consulting Group.
