Worst is yet to come for active managers, Watson Wyatt warns super funds

Hugh Dougherty, head of manager research for Watson Wyatt in Sydney, said “This is clearly a difficult business environment for active managers and ‘people’ issues are likely to be superseded by ‘business’ issues as the principal concern of management and chief among these will be consolidation, regulation and sustainability.”

 

 

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Robeco CIO says AI winners and losers will be decided within a year

Asset managers that underestimate the importance of artificial intelligence to their businesses do so at their own peril, according to Anton Eser, global chief investment officer of Robeco, who thinks that many have less than a year to get across the “most important transformation” the industry has seen since the beginning of the index business more than 25 years ago.

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