Conditions in the asset-management industry are shifting, leaving it vulnerable to disruption by technology firms according to a white paper by SEI SEI. The study calls upon the investment industry to explore five sweeping trends that are transforming its landscape which it describes as Watsonization, Googlization, Amazonization, Uberization and Twitterization, noting that there are an estimated 4,000 or more start-ups active in the fintech sector, a growing number of which are targeting opportunities that threaten to disrupt traditional asset managers.
Conditions in the asset-management industry are shifting, leaving it vulnerable to disruption by technology firms according to a white paper by SEI. The study calls upon the investment industry to explore five sweeping trends that are transforming its landscape which it describes as Watsonization, Googlization, Amazonization, Uberization and Twitterization, noting that there are an estimated 4,000 or more start-ups active in the fintech sector, a growing number of which are targeting opportunities that threaten to disrupt traditional asset managers.