2013 Asset Management Compensation

Buy-Side Bliss: Compensation Up in 2013, Especially Among Top-Performing Firms

October 2013

These are good times to be on the buy side. In conjunction with Johnson Associates, Greenwich  Associates recently analyzed its compensation data and found that portfolio managers and traders
on the buy side are outperforming their sell-side peers in a series of quantitative and qualitative
career measures, including total compensation, compensation growth and job satisfaction. Within the
buy side, however, not all investment professionals are experiencing the same level of compensation
acceleration: Professionals at firms with the best performance find their compensation soaring while
those at funds with even average performance are experiencing lower, although still applaudable,
compensation growth rates.