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2 James E. Ross, “A look ahead: The ETF industry’s next 25 years,” SPDR Blog, March 9, 2018, https://global.spdrs.com/blog/post/2018/mar/a-look-ahead-the-etf-industrys-next-25-years.html.
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4 Mark J. Perry, “More evidence that it’s very hard to ‘beat the market’ over time, 95% of finance professionals can’t do it,” AEIdeas blog, March 20, 2018, http://www.aei.org/publication/more-evidence-that-its-very-hard-to-beat-the-market-over-time-95-of-financial-professionals-cant-do-it/.
5 James Lord, “Active managers take a beating,” ETF Strategy, March 20, 2018, https://www.etfstrategy.com/active-managers-take-a-beating-underperform-benchmark-indices-according-to-spiva-scorecard-38393/.
6 “Q1 2018 Private Capital Fundraising Update Datapack,” Preqin, April 4, 2018.
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9 Eshe Nelson, “It’s official: We’re in the longest bull market ever,” Quartz, August 22, 2018, https://qz.com/1364993/its-official-were-in-the-longest-bull-market-ever/.
10 “Casey Quirk and McLagan Study Shows Growing Divide Between Winners and Losers in Asset Management,” news release, CaseyQuirk.com, July 9, 2018, https://www.caseyquirk.com/media-center.html.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Jeff Patterson, “BlackRock acquires Cachematrix, expanding its cash management capabilities,” Finance Magnates, June 28, 2017, https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/execution/blackrock-acquires-cachematrix-expanding-cash-management-capabilities/.
14 Data and analytics provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/legal/snp-global-market-intelligence-disclosure-notice.html.
15 Jennifer Ablan and Trevor Hunnicutt, “Invesco agrees to buy Guggenheim Investments’ ETF business for $1.2 billion,” Reuters, September 28, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-invesco-guggenheim/invesco-agrees-to-buy-guggenheim-investments-etf-business-for-1-2-billion-idUSKCN1C33EJ.
16 Ibid.
17 “ROBO ADVISOR: Can Robinhood and Acorns grow into their valuations?,” Autonomous NEXT, May 14, 2018, https://next.autonomous.com/thoughts/can-robinhood-and-acorns-grow-into-their-valuations.
18 Ibid.
19 Chao Deng, “China cracks open door for foreign fund managers,” Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-cracks-open-door-for-foreign-fund-managers-1525002659.
20 Owen Walker, “Global investors lick lips as China opens to asset firms,” Financial Times, January 13, 2018, https://www.ft.com/content/8c6cb3ba-f636- 11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00.
21 Daniel Celeghin and Natalie Wong, “Leadership in times of plenty: Future winners in China’s asset management industry,” white paper, Casey Quirk by Deloitte, November 2017, https://www.caseyquirk.com/content/whitepapers/Casey%20Quirk%20-%20Leadership%20in%20Times%20of%20Plenty.pdf.
22 Ibid.
23 Nitin Sonawane, “Asian Region Funds Passport (ARFP): A key to harmonized market for Asian Mutual Funds distribution,” (Re)imagine, April 19, 2018, https://www.maknowledgeservices.com/blog/asian-region-funds-passport-arfp-a-key-to-harmonized-market-for-asian-mutual-funds-distribution.
24 “UBS asset management secures mainland China private fund license,” Business Times, July 13, 2017, https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/banking-finance/ubs-asset-management-secures-mainland-china-private-fund-license.
25 Allen Cheng, “Why fund firms are gunning for China”, Institutional Investor, February 7, 2018, https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b16ttbcr0xgfh3/why-fund-firms-are-gunning-for-china.
26 “UBS Asset Management: No. 1 in China,” UBS, April 30, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018, https://www.ubs.com/microsites/china-insights/en/insights/foresight/2018/ubs-am-no1-in-china.html.
27 Company information, UBS Asset Management, email message to the author, October 9, 2018.
28 Shanny Basar, “PIMCO looks to data advantage,” Markets Media, June 8, 2018, https://www.marketsmedia.com/pimco-looks-to-data-advantage/.
29 Margaryta Kirakosian, “BlackRock’s $105bn team launches Big Data-driven fund range,” Citywire Americas, June 11, 2018, https://citywireamericas.com/news/blackrocks-105bn-team-launches-big-data-driven-fund-range/a1127978.
30 Faye Kilburn, “Goldman building team to sell its own alternative data,” Risk.net, May 2, 2018, https://www.risk.net/asset-management/5566596/goldman-building-team-to-sell-its-own-alternative-data.
31 Doug Dannemiller, “2018 Investment Management Outlook: Vision and focus to drive success,” Deloitte, December 2017, https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/financial-services/articles/investment-management-industry-outlook.html.
32 R. Jesse McWaters and Rob Galaski, “The new physics of financial services,” World Economic Forum and Deloitte, August 2018, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_New_Physics_of_Financial_Services.pdf.
33 Penny Crosman, “AI is augmenting Morgan Stanley’s advisers—not replacing them,” American Banker, July 18, 2017, https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ai-is-augmenting-morgan-stanleys-advisers-not-replacing-them.
34 Ibid.
35 Carolina Wilson, “AI to lead BlackRock’s new active ETFs,” Financial Planning, March 26, 2018, https://www.financial-planning.com/articles/blackrock-looks-to-robots-to-lead-its-new-active-etfs.
36 Jeff Benjamin, “Fee pressure driving asset managers into wealth management,” Investment News, July 5, 2018, https://www.investmentnews.com/article/20180705/FREE/180709962/fee-pressure-driving-asset-managers-into-wealth-management.
37 “UBS puts digital clone of chief investment officer in branch,” Finextra, July 4, 2018, https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/32350/ubs-puts-digital-clone-of-chief-investment-officer-in-branch.
38 Shaheen Contractor, “Pensions demand, millennials propel sustainable investing growth,” Bloomberg, August 8, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/pensions-demand-millennials-propel-sustainable-investing-growth/.
39 Beverly Chandler, “Demand surges for ESG, SRI and impact investing,” ETFEXpress, July 17, 2018, https://www.etfexpress.com/2018/07/17/266480/demand-surges-esg-sri-and-impact-investing.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Crystal Kim, “Funds without fees? That’s just the beginning,” Barron’s, August 31, 2018, https://www.barrons.com/articles/zero-fund-fees-thats-just-the-beginning-1535758640.
43 Daren Fonda, “BlackRock could be the winner of the no-fee fund wars,” Barron’s, September 5, 2018, https://www.barrons.com/articles/blackrock-could-be-the-winner-of-the-no-fee-fund-wars-1536163460.
44 “Our new performance fee model,” Allianz Global Investors, https://uk.allianzgi.com/en-gb/adviser/funds/new-performance-fee-model, accessed September 10, 2018.
45 Piotr Zembrowski, “How will AI change asset management?” Fund Selector Asia, March 23, 2018, https://fundselectorasia.com/how-will-ai-change-asset-management/.
46 Ovum Knowledge Center, ICT Enterprise Insights survey 2018–19.
47“State Street Verus,” http://www.statestreet.com/verus, accessed October 11, 2018.
48 Ovum Knowledge Center, ICT Enterprise Insights survey 2018–19.
49 Ibid.
50 “MiFID II and the requirements for call recording in financial services,” ECaaS, https://ecaas.co.uk/blog/mifid-ii-and-the-requirements-for-call-recording-in-financial-services/, accessed September 21, 2018.
51 “‘Brexit means Brexit’—but what does it mean for companies in the financial services sector?” Deloitte, October 2017, https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/de/Documents/financial-services/Brexit_8_2017_EN.pdf.
52 Peter Smith, “Asset managers fear delegation changes post-Brexit,” Financial Times, January 18, 2018, https://www.ft.com/content/c3a17cde-fc4a-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167.
53 Ibid.
54 David Robinson, “59% of asset managers ‘preparing for hard Brexit’,” Expert Investor, August 20, 2018, https://expertinvestoreurope.com/59-of-asset-managers-preparing-for-hard-brexit/.
55 “BlackRock, Citi plan Paris expansion in Brexit plan,” Private Banker International, July 10, 2018, https://www.verdict.co.uk/private-banker-international/news/blackrock-citi-plan-paris-expansion-brexit-plan/.
56 Alistair Gray, David Keohane, and Laura Noonan, “Wells Fargo eyes Paris and Dublin as post-Brexit hubs,” Financial Times, June 3, 2018, https://www.ft.com/content/a8aee43c-65a1-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56.
57 Dan Primack, “States working to close carried interest tax loophole,” Axios, January 20, 2018, https://www.axios.com/states-carried-interest-tax-1516395259-5be35ac6-a947-431c-98c0-c8ebb783d2a3.html
58 Wolf Richter, “What will the tax law do to over-indebted corporate America?,” Wolf Street, December 22, 2017, https://wolfstreet.com/2017/12/22/what-will-the-tax-law-do-to-over-indebted-corporate-america/.
59 Ian Wenik, “SEC orders asset manager to pay $97m over ‘faulty’ models,” Citywire, August 27, 2018, https://citywireusa.com/professional-buyer/news/sec-orders-asset-manager-to-pay-97m-over-faulty-models/a1149698.
60 Prof. Amin Rajan, “Digitisation of asset and wealth management: Promise and pitfalls,” Create Research, 2017.
61 Gerald C. Kane, Doug Palmer, Anh Nguyen Phillips, David Kiron, and Natasha Buckley, “Coming of age digitally: Learning, leadership, and legacy,” MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte Insights, June 2018, https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/digital-maturity/coming-of-age-digitally-learning-leadership-legacy.html.
62 Chris Morris, “Nearly half of American households will own a smart speaker by 2019,” Fortune, September 10, 2018, http://fortune.com/2018/09/10/smart-speaker-ownership-amazon-echo-apple-homepod/.
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