Ten challenges facing global asset managers
By Mark Battersby, 6 Jan 16
In the latest in a series of viewpoints from prominent industry figures, Nigel Watson, sales director of VAM Funds, sets out what he sees as the key challenges and opportunities for global asset managers in 2016 and beyond.
The rise and rise of technology
Asset managers must embrace new technologies to continue to be competitive, whether that applies to dealing and trade execution or tools for helping to gather and analyse market data and information.
E-commerce is practically an antiquated term these days but it does describe the way we all do business now. We work with online investment platforms in all the jurisdictions in which we operate and we need to make sure that our systems are compatible with a wide range of different technologies.
Failure to keep up would cause serious problems. On the end investor and client side, online mobile devices are now a ubiquitous part of doing business and an essential tool used by many people in their daily lives.
Asset managers must keep pace with the increasing digitalisation that is happening, particularly when it comes to providing access to timely information in appropriate formats and via different mediums.
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