Canada’s wealth management landscape continues to transform. I see increased eagerness from clients to discuss the ‘New’, with them initiating conversations that used to require my coaxing. This results from the usual suspects: market and consumer forces, as well as digital technology disruption. From changing investor demographics and preferences, to the rise of digitally native…

Last year, I wrote about how Private Equity (PE) firms were using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive investment returns – the key takeaway being that the PE industry was still far behind in terms of AI maturity, primarily due to structural reasons including limited data availability, long hold periods for assets, and non-recoverability of costs…

We recently released our Capital Markets Vision 2022 research, which identifies the trends shaping the industry over the next several years and the 17 priorities that industry players should pursue in response. Of these priorities, seven are particularly relevant for institutional investors. While there is much more to be said about each of them, I…

Accenture’s latest research – our Capital Markets Vision 2022 report –  reveals that asset management is one of the most profitable sectors in capital markets. Despite, and partly because of, this success, we expect the next few years to be challenging. The economics that have led to this profitability, combined with the constant threat of…

Last week, I shared upcoming capital markets trends for the investment banking industry. Now, let’s examine the trends we discovered in our Capital Markets Vision 2022 report that could impact the market infrastructure industry. Did you know market infrastructure is a $100 billion industry today? Yet, the outlook for its exchange, platform, and asset servicing…

In my previous blog post, I shared some of the top-level findings of our latest report, Capital Markets Vision 2022. In short, our analysis predicts three overarching industry trends that will drive a period of ongoing change in capital markets. But what is happening at the sub industry level? We’ll delve into the effects of…