Calastone March 2020

Transforming distribution through technology: Survey highlights

The application of new technology is important in helping the investment funds industry to win new business and to deliver attractive, cost-efficient solutions to...

The technology challenge

Digital transformation has become a buzz phrase for the asset management industry. This implies innovation in business platforms and cloud-based services, along with control...

Technology adoption

In keeping with previous surveys, we asked whether the asset management industry is good at adopting new technology (fig 2). The answer, for a...

Cooperation and competition

The next section has been included in the survey for the past three years. This evaluates which companies will be the most valuable partners...

Distribution channels

In this section, the survey evaluates how the distribution channels that asset managers are using to sell their fund products are evolving over time....

Challenges in attracting new investors

The primary challenge that asset management companies currently face in attracting new investors, respondents tell us, is a lack of investor education. A second...

Investment advice

As the asset management industry focuses on delivering “better solutions” to the investor (rather than simply “better products”), one fundamental component in this package...

Concluding thoughts

Distributed ledger technology and artificial intelligence continue to be the technology areas that survey respondents believe will have most impact on the future of...

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