Almost all large fund managers will outsource investment research organisation duties to third-party providers within the next two years, a new survey has found.

According to the study commissioned by US-headquartered firm MackeyRMS, about 75 per cent of the 100 asset managers covered in the survey already use a specialist investment research management system, split between outsourced (57 per cent) and home-built (17 per cent) services.

“Among the asset managers that don’t use a dedicated platform today, 96 percent said their firm was likely to extremely likely to evaluate adopting a third-party system in the next 24 months,” the survey says. “All respondents from asset managers who built an in-house system said the same.”

MackeyRMS, which recently established a base in Australia, provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) to fund management firms designed to “optimize the way analysts and portfolio managers generate, share, debate and act on investment research conducted for actively managed portfolios”.