June 27, 2023
Navigating retail channel complexity is key to asset manager growth
Retail channels drive growth and innovation in asset management but developing a clearly aligned product and distribution strategy is critical.
Perspectives is our leadership team’s latest thinking within the industries we operate in.
Retail channels drive growth and innovation in asset management but developing a clearly aligned product and distribution strategy is critical.
Brand quality is a critical element of asset manager propositions, offering a relevant customer-centred dimension in a performance-dominated world. A reputable brand can deliver competitive differentiation and embody trust, although also places a responsibility that managers live up to expectations.
The effects of climate change are increasingly evident. Who better than re/insurers – blessed with the advantages of data, expertise, and balance sheets – to play an outsized role in driving broad-based adaptation to changing global climate, as well as the transition to net zero?
Medical schemes generated excess reserves during the pandemic, most intending to return these to members in future years. The approach taken to giving back by individual medical schemes could significantly impact their near-term competitiveness and sustainability.
That institutional customers would look for long-term relationships with ‘good partners’ is both intuitive and uncontroversial: broadly, and across industries. Less well appreciated perhaps is that core to successful long-term partnerships is a well-formulated, effectively communicated strategy.
Hitherto largely ignored by financial professionals, Millennials are growing up and (if nothing changes) will present a $3tn missed opportunity for asset managers.
Going digital could be the next way forward for Asia Life insurers; NMG’s research suggests that there is value for insurers to invest in digital-first capabilities
Updated global brand rankings Property & Casualty Reinsurers, 2021 (including Specialty Lines)
Positive sales momentum and faster-than-expected rotation to digital and remote models in 2021 underpins the international sector’s…
The last few years have seen unprecedented challenges for the South African insurance industry. Although most of…