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Decrease in mutual fund investors has forced market consolidation

As retail providers pull assets away from traditional mutual funds and into ETFs, they are spreading their remaining dollars among fewer providers, which has resulted in significant market consolidation.

By Paula Aven Gladych | Updated on February 23, 2012

As retail providers pull assets away from traditional mutual funds, in favor of products like exchange-traded funds, they are spreading their remaining mutual fund dollars among fewer providers, which has resulted in significant market consolidation. According to the 2012 Investor Brandscape, an annual report by Cogent Research, 71 percent of affluent investors with at least $100,000 in investable assets now own mutual funds, down 4 percentage points from 2010.

Additionally, the share of total investor assets that mutual funds represent has declined from 33 percent in 2010 to 26 percent at the end of 2011. With fewer dollars allocated to mutual funds, the average number of fund providers that investors tap has declined from 1.9 to 1.56.

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