The yin yang of financial disruption: Maxims for forging a path to financial stability and healthy financial innovation
The path to a healthy, sustainable equilibrium within the global financial system will require institutions and governments to effectively manage the overarching yin yang - the delicate balance between financial stability and healthy financial innovation.
Building client advocacy: New opportunities for wealth management firms
Wealth management firms must reach out and collaborate with their clients to build compelling, distinct value propositions and become customer focused enterprises by integrating their clients' views and attitudes into the design and execution of core operations.
The trader is dead, long live the trader! A financial markets renaissance
Financial markets firms must be able to succeed in an environment where analysis, not knowledge, is the value creator, and where it’s not seconds that count, but milliseconds.
Risk, regulation and return: Delivering value through enterprise risk management
A wave of new regulations is prompting banks to rethink how they assess and manage risk. While compliance will remain the focus of risk management efforts in the near term, leading firms are transforming risk management into a partner that provides value to the business.
Asset managers turning up the heat: Creating differentiated value under uncertainty
What is the current temperature of the asset management industry? The bear market has given way to impressive growth and expectations of strong financial performance seem reasonable. Instead, many large firms have been dismayed to experience lower revenue and flat income per asset managed.
Component business modeling: Financial services firms prepare for an on demand world
The tech revolution of the 1990s forever altered the competitive landscape for financial services companies. Today's interconnected firms face a business environment that challenges them on multiple levels.
Energize your supply chain network: New competitive advantage from existing investments
This survey identifies current practices, captures significant trends and establishes operational performance benchmarks in five key areas of supply chain management (SCM): new product development, supply chain planning, customer order management, procurement and logistics.
Watching the asset management bottom line in a normal growth environment
The financial asset growth of the 1990's was an anomaly. As the market normalizes, asset managers will need to focus on cost reductions rather than top-line expansion to fuel earnings. This starts with a change of mindset -- from managing assets to managing a complete portfolio of operations.
