Managed Account Assets Post 7% Asset Growth in Q1 2024 – MMI-Cerulli Data

The Q1 2024 edition of MMI-Cerulli Advisory Solutions Quarterly, which provides statistics on the managed accounts industry as of March 31, 2024, is available for download. 

Managed account assets grew 7.0% in Q1 2024, reaching $12.3 trillion. All managed account program types increased more than 5% in Q1 2024, with separate account programs (SMAs) and unified managed accounts (UMAs) boosting the overall industry, growing 7.9% and 8.1%, respectively.  Total managed account flows for the quarter increased 15.6% over Q4 2023 to $166.3 billion, with the strongest flows coming from UMAs ($59.0 billion) and rep-as-portfolio-manager (RPM) programs ($40.6 billion). 

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MMI-Cerulli Advisory Solutions Data Portal
The sponsor and manager dashboards on the MMI-Cerulli Advisory Solutions Data portal on Cerulli’s Lodestar platform are updated with Q1 2024 data. As a reminder, MMI members that contribute their advisory solutions data to Cerulli on a quarterly basis have access to this online portal. It allows users to take a deeper dive into the MMI-Cerulli dataset – with the ability to sort, filter and export the data for business planning and presentation purposes.

Please contact:

• mmidata@cerulli.com with questions on the report, access to the online portal, or contributing data
• info@mminst.org for assistance accessing the Advisory Solutions Quarterly report