Asset Management and Services

The Asset Management and Services (AMS) core business comprises all of the Group’s investor services businesses and leads the BNP Paribas asset gathering effort. One of the foremost players in Europe, AMS offers fund management and discretionary asset management services, backed by a range of high value-added investor services.

AMS leverages expertise in 3 main areas:

• Wealth and Asset Management, comprising asset management (BNP Paribas Investment Partners), Cortal Consors online brokerage and personal investment services
  (BNP Paribas Personal Investors), private banking (BNP Paribas Banque Privée), and real estate services (BNP Paribas Immobilier);
• Insurance (BNP Paribas Assurance);
• Securities Services for corporate clients, fund managers and financial institutions across the globe (BNP Paribas Securities Services).

Through these six businesses, which count more than 19,000 employees in some 50 countries, AMS offers a comprehensive range of products and services to a broad investor clientele, including institutional clients, corporations and private individuals.

In 2006, each AMS business was a leader in its market in France and at a European or global level.