Our latest survey, Survive and Thrive to 2025: Insights from the Wealth Management C-Level, shows how the wealth management industry remains attractive, even during a time of great industry turmoil. Over a short period, the industry has entered a much tougher environment with major volatility and uncertainty. Industry-wide transformation and digital disruption were already well…
“We all need to do more.” Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan, June 2020 With this quote, Brian Moynihan announced Bank of America’s $1B commitment to aid local communities dealing with economic and racial inequality that’s been exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak.1 In doing so, he helped pivot the already growing environmental, social,…
The COVID-19 pandemic is a profound health and humanitarian crisis that has brought significant economic hardship for many people around the world, and it will continue to impact our lives for many months to come. At the same time though, we have witnessed an incredible spirit of resiliency with communities and companies coming together to…
In our recent viewpoint COVID-19: A capital markets industry perspective, we examined what capital markets firms should be doing now and next to deal with the unprecedented challenges being faced during the pandemic. In this blog post, we’ll apply and refine our thinking specifically for asset managers and their clients. In many ways, the COVID-19…
The COVID-19 pandemic is a profound health and humanitarian crisis that massively challenges the financial and operational resilience of the global capital markets industry. Industry leaders need to stay on top of a rapidly changing situation and do what is best for their people, their customers and their organizations. We believe capital markets firms should…
According to Accenture’s Reinventing Operations in Asset Management report, risk management in the middle and back office is a top five concern among asset managers. While investment risk rightfully receives a great deal of asset managers’ attention, other risk management activities often take a backseat. Emerging risks—particularly those relating to new technologies, regulation, cyber threats,…
