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Posted on September 11, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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By Gaia Neiman and Alessandro Parodi
(Reuters) -Italy's five listed asset gatherers reported combined net inflows of 3.77 billion euros ($4.42 billion) in August, up 65%from 2.29 billion euros in the same month of 2024.
Net inflows into more lucrative managed assets rose 39% from the same month of last year, to a combined 2.52 billion euros, data showed.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
The fund management industry is under pressure to protect margins as it grapples with growing technology spending and competition from passive products and other cheaper forms of investment.
With interest rates falling, Italian banks are increasingly turning to the running of customer savings to support revenues as consolidation sweeps the sector.
Monte dei Paschi this week secured 62% of Mediobanca after the bid target's defence strategy, centred around the proposed acquisition of private bank Banca Generali, failed.
In April, Italy's third-largest bank Banco BPM bought fund manager Anima Holding as it fought a hostile bid by bigger rival UniCredit which has now collapsed.
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"August brokerage activity (at Fineco) outperforms platform peers, with net flows annualising at 6.7%," Citi analysts said in a note.
"The flows are predominantly driven by assets under custody (AUC) net flows .... We expect the AUC net inflows to be partly driven by purchases of government bonds as bond yields rose in August."
($1 = 0.8530 euros)
(Reporting by Gaia Neiman, Alessandro Parodi; Eduting by Valentina Za)
Italy's five listed asset gatherers reported combined net inflows of 3.77 billion euros in August, which is a 65% increase from 2.29 billion euros in the same month of 2024.
Net inflows into managed assets rose by 39% from the same month last year, reaching a combined total of 2.52 billion euros.
The fund management industry is under pressure to protect margins due to increasing technology spending and competition from passive investment products.
Monte dei Paschi secured 62% of Mediobanca after a defense strategy related to the proposed acquisition of private bank Banca Generali failed.
Citi analysts noted that August brokerage activity at Fineco outperformed peers, driven predominantly by assets under custody net flows, partly influenced by purchases of government bonds as bond yields rose.
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