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Asset management (physical)

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Asset management is the method that a company uses to track fixed assets, for example factory equipment, desks and chairs, computers, even buildings. Although the exact details of the task varies widely from company to company, asset management often includes tracking the physical location of assets, managing demand for scarce resources, and accounting tasks such as amortization.

The most common usage of the phrase asset management is in terms of the financial services industry. Here it is used to describe the management of assets invested on behalf of a range of sectors including: collective investment schemes, pension funds and so-called private banking or wealth management (typically for wealthy individuals).

 


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