Asset management business refers to the behavior that asset managers operate clients' assets, provide clients with securities, funds and other financial products and charge fees according to the methods, conditions, requirements and restrictions agreed in the asset management contract.
 
Asset management can be defined as the actual process in which assets collected by institutional investors are invested in the capital market. Although conceptually the two aspects are often intertwined, in practice asset managers may or may not be part of institutional investors from a legal point of view. In fact, asset management can be an internal or external affair of the institution itself.
Therefore, asset management refers to the act of a client handing over his assets to the trustee and the trustee providing financial management services for the client. It is the financial institution that invests the client's assets in the financial market on behalf of the client and obtains the investment income for the client.
 
Another way of asset management is to manage the assets of custodians as the manager of assets, and mainly invest in industries, including but not limited to manufacturing enterprises. This management risk is small, the income is lower than the capital market, the investment threshold is lower.
 
There are three main types of asset management business:
 
1. Conducted directional asset management services for a single customer.
 
2. Conducted collective asset management business for multiple clients.
 
3. Handle special asset management business for customers' specific purposes.

 
To engage in asset management business of the company in addition to securities companies, fund companies, trust companies, asset management, outside there is a third party finance company, in a sense, the third party finance companies in asset management, market expansion and locate some similar to today's private equity fund, will work and flexible professional terms bundle grafting as a breakthrough to open asset management markets. Like Noah wealth, Silver assets, profit wealth are such third-party financial companies.
 
Landesk asset life cycle manager
 
In traditional asset management, information related to assets is scattered in planning, production, logistics, finance and other independent systems, which will inevitably lead to information islands and become the main obstacle to the realization of asset life cycle management. At present, the wide application of various advanced computer technology and communication technology makes it easier to realize the information of assets. At the same time, the application of information fusion technology enables the management of asset information under the unified platform, thus providing favorable conditions for the realization of asset life cycle management.
 
On the basis of the asset information, from the source to strengthen cost control, through the project management refinement, reduce the project cost, strengthen the assets management of economic operation, reduce operation maintenance cost, improve the asset retirement monitor and standardize the process, strengthen the technical appraisal, strengthen asset retirement and scrap management, realize the whole life cycle of enterprise asset management.
 
Accounts and ensures that assets are being used efficiently
 
Every asset has a life cycle. If an organization understands the current state of its assets, IT can wisely plan and budget for IT procurement activities, updates, replacements, and other changes throughout the asset life cycle.
 
Organizational asset data
 
With Landesk Asset Lifecycle Manager, an enterprise can control hardware, software, and other assets from an operational perspective and combine these assets with organizational and financial information for strategic planning. It also facilitates the implementation of complex value and liability management, integrating asset data into the larger IT service management strategy.
 
Landesk Asset Lifecycle Manager generates a visual graph that shows the various assets in the environment and how they relate to each other, making the Lifecycle more visual. Use this relational data to view the connections between assets, contracts, licenses, and organizational units, and report on the functions of the assets among these relationships. Understanding the relationships between many IT assets gives enterprise users the tools, information, and capabilities to support integrated software asset management, compliance reporting, and cost recovery efforts.
 
Landesk Asset Lifecycle Manager can perform workflow and Asset property or Lifecycle state changes simultaneously. It can keep asset data fresh and relevant and inform stakeholders of significant changes, as well as capture core data that the organization needs to show immediate and significant value to the entire enterprise.