With a cumulative internet asset worth of over N5.9 trillion, Nigeria’s asset administration trade is a crucial pillar of the nation’s {financial} companies ecosystem.
Asset administration corporations (AMCs) not solely facilitate wealth creation for people, corporates, and establishments, but additionally function key channels for capital allocation throughout the financial system fueling infrastructure, innovation, and industrial progress.
These corporations sometimes construction their portfolios throughout cash market funds, fairness funds, fixed-income funds, and balanced/combined funds, providing a various vary of funding automobiles for various investor wants and threat appetites.
Cash market funds present security and liquidity; fairness funds supply high-risk, high-reward progress; fixed-income funds ship stability and predictable returns; and balanced funds mix each approaches.
On this characteristic, the Internet Asset Worth (NAV) of all collective funding schemes (CIS) as of twentieth June 2025 has been used as a proxy to focus on the dimensions and efficiency of Nigeria’s main asset managers and the strategic executives behind them.
Mr. Owolabi brings over twenty years of expertise within the banking trade and at the moment serves because the MD of FSDH Asset Administration Restricted. On this function, he leads the event and administration of relationships with non-bank {financial} establishments and different institutional purchasers.
Previous to becoming a member of FSDH, he held numerous positions at FCMB, the place he was accountable at totally different instances for {Financial} Establishments, Correspondent Banking, and Structured Funding. He additionally beforehand served as Head of Treasury at IMB Worldwide {Bank}.
Mr. Owolabi holds a bachelor’s diploma in Agriculture from the College of Ilorin and an MBA from the Enterprise Faculty Netherlands. He has participated in a number of coaching packages each regionally and internationally. At FSDH Service provider {Bank}, his duties additionally prolonged to wealth administration and correspondent banking.
