Futurist Keynote, London: The Future of Asset Management, EuroMoney

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By Matthew Griffin Keynote Presentations 14th December 2016

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

The world of asset management is changing faster than ever before so it’s imperative that in these times, when there are more demographic, regulatory and technological than ever before senior leaders stay informed and ahead of the curve.

Firstly, thank you to Alyona for inviting me to chair and keynote at this years EuroMoney Asset Management 2.0 summit in London where some of the financial elite, from Blackrock, UBS, Standard Life and State Street to Innovate Finance and their latest cohort of fintech disruptors.

The aim of this year’s conference was to provide C-Level executives with a forum where members of the investment management community could listen to and debate how innovation and industry digitisation, in the short, medium and long term, would influence their industry, and even though it’s still a very lucrative business to be in it was evident to everyone involved that, like every other industry, the wealth management industry is facing increasing pressures across several key areas, including demographic change, regulation and technology. Couple this with the omni-present pressure to reduce costs, comply with increasing amounts of new regulation and communicate and engage with an increasingly savvy digital first demographic, as well as an increasingly dynamic and complex marketplace, and we had the makings of a great summit.

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During my presentation I shone a light on how technology and social change are accelerating the pace of transformation within the asset management industry, new market opportunities and new asset classes, and the effects that an increasingly aged and skewed population will have on everything from savings and investments to pensions and behaviours. Then, throughout the rest of the day we debated the competition between Man and Machine, and whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can truly outperform old fashioned skill, experience and gut instinct, the impact that Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies will have on the industry, how to use big data to build better, more lucrative portfolios, and the rise of Roboadvisories. That said it was also clear that the panels still felt that the public’s attitude to pensions and savings were still out of kilter with their expectations about returns, and that digital ID systems, while important, and still lagging behind.

Then, finally, as the sun set behind London Bridge at the end of the day we capped it all off with sixty minutes worth of pitches and presentations from some of the industries brightest fintechs and rising stars, companies such as Quantopian, a Quant company that is raising the bar when it comes to using AI to find Alpha, and many others.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath, is one of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts. A serial entrepreneur Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. 13 times author of the Codex of the Future series, Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and run several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world's most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pepsi Co, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. He was also the only futurist invited to talk at the UN COP28 held in Dubai alongside world leaders.

Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.