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.
Delivering robust quality products
Global asset managers are increasingly expected to offer robust infrastructure and products based in well-regulated jurisdictions, offering daily dealing and clean and transparent pricing – requirements that are considered hygiene factors by most clients and distributors.
UCITS funds are a must for most advisers now, whereas in the past sometimes obscure and esoteric funds were commonplace in the so-called ‘offshore’ or ‘international’ sector. This is no longer true. Advisers and their clients have been burned by these so many times as the funds have run into trouble in one way or another, so there’s been a big shift away from them to higher quality products investing in more mainstream asset classes.
This trend is only going to continue and quality asset managers such as VAM will need to continue to invest in the quality of their operations.
Tags: Nigel Watson | UCITS | VAM
