There’s an enormous wave of new investors who are currently changing the brokerage industry in the U.S. Last year alone, it’s estimated that one-third of the U.S. stock market trading was initiated by retail investors.1 In 2020, 15% of investors in the…
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Talk to an asset management professional who has been in the business over time, and they’ll tell you about an era where an asset management firm’s brand was rarely discussed. That seems like ancient history now, doesn’t it? A whopping 99% of…
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In a recent Accenture survey, 69% of wealth management consumers in the U.S. and Canada said they would consider using Google, Apple or Facebook to manage their money if these channels featured a wealth and money management offering.1 Apparently many clients today…
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In early 2021, an army of amateur investors sent shockwaves around Wall Street. Coordinating themselves over the social media site Reddit, they ramped up the share price of the video game retailer GameStop, leaving several financial institutions nursing losses.¹ This sequence of…
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In my previous blog, I looked at the role of investment stewardship with a focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. The blog described how the asset management industry is increasingly leveraging investment stewardship to oversee their ESG products and investments.…
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Asset managers and asset owners, in general, must come to terms with a new environment. Volatility has increased, driven by economic, geopolitical and environmental pressures, and conventional theories on how to generate alpha are increasingly being challenged. This is equally true for…
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The future of work in Capital Markets will likely involve a flexible blend of remote and on-premises working. In fact, Accenture’s Future of Work Study 2021 found that 83% of workers from across the economy regard a hybrid model as the optimal…
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Over the last 18 months, the Wealth Management market in APAC has seen a surge in self-directed trading via online brokerage platforms, as the pandemic disrupted the normal social interactions upon which relationship managers traditionally rely. An e-trading platform is now seen…
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Today, capital markets players are seeing rapid increases in trading volumes, market volatility, and in the demand for real-time, cross-portfolio risk analytics and regulatory reporting. Together, these trends are intensifying the urgency of moving away from rather inflexible, cost-laden on-premise infrastructures towards…
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Over the past year, capital markets firms were understandably hyper-focused on stabilizing client relationships, guaranteeing employee safety, and keeping operations going during the economic uncertainty COVID-19 brought. Efficiency and caution ruled the day. But now we’re seeing the pendulum increasingly swing in…
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Asset managers have been focused in the past mainly on driving scale and efficiencies into their investment operations. Now, many firms are turning to a new playbook. Its priorities? Using digital as ...
Together with a group of our industry experts, we have developed and published our Capital Markets Industry Vision for 2025. Grounded in an analysis of the financial results of over 140 capital market...
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has made great headway in the past two years. It’s a trend that’s continuing to accelerate. In fact, our new research study, The future of asset ma...
Traditional private banks and wealth managers often struggle in adapting their offerings to appeal to younger generations of clients. As a result, they are at risk of losing those clients to competito...
As part of Accenture and Orbium’s continued commitment to help drive valuable discussions within the wealth management industry, we have created our annual Wealth Management Digest—a curated selection...
What could the workplace and the nature of work itself be like for the asset management industry as we emerge from the pandemic shutdown? How could the industry begin to reconsider the use of their of...
Responsible leadership has become central to the success of companies in every sector, including wealth management. Not only does it affect the value and reputation of a company, but it goes further t...
We are living in quite strange times. The financial markets appear to be facing even stranger times with current stock market prices seemingly disconnected from the surrounding economic upheaval. As I...
Few industries are experiencing changes in technology advancement as dramatically as investment management. No longer is the impact limited to sophisticated functions such as investment research withi...
There will be no going back to the world as we knew it pre-COVID-19. The pandemic has only accelerated the digital migration that was taking place across societies, requiring wealth managers to shorte...
