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Improving client experience in institutional and wholesale investment management
Engaging the whole firm
Client experience is increasingly becoming a point of differentiation for investment managers. Our report explores what clients want aside from investment performance and how can firms further engage clients with a richer experience.
Clients are increasingly viewing their experience as a key element of manager selection and redemptions decisions, with 76% of buyers reporting client experience as a contributing factor to ending an investment manager relationship1. Despite that, little research has been undertaken into the experience clients are looking for.
In response, Deloitte has conducted primary research on the important drivers of the client experience in investment management (IM) and has built a framework IM firms can use to further engage clients via a richer experience.
Seven drivers of investment management client experience
We have identified a wide range of important client issues, explore these further
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Partnership approach
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Clarity of purpose and communication
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Long termism
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Know me
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Attentiveness
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Operational friction
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Doing the basics well
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How to enhance your client experience?
Our framework groups the Seven drivers into three three levels, discover more about this
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Do The first level it’s getting the the basics right and avoiding operational friction |
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Deliver The second level is knowing the client and meeting expectations |
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Differentiate The third level has the greatest potential for improving client experience in IM |
While differentiation is key, and partnerships are identified as an attractive way to achieve this, our findings show it will be hard for firms to build a high quality client and experience that is differentiated if they cannot effectively execute the day-to-day aspects of the client-manager relationship.
Contact a member of our team listed below to discuss client experience in IM and how using our framework can enhance the client experience offered to investors.
1 In a recent paper by Deloitte-Casey Quirk, Distribution 2.0, we reported that for 76% of buyers, client experience is a contributing factor to manager terminations