
Mark Shields
Recent Posts
digital private wealth, digital private wealth management, robo advisors
Can automation and robo-advisors help democratize the wealth management industry?
Digital wealth management software can increase the financial services industry’s cost efficiency and enable them to reach a wider audience with custom services.
wealth management, wealth advisory, machine-generated investment strategies, artificial intelligence, machine learning
Can AI-based recommender solutions help wealth managers?
Recommendation solutions are sometimes used by wealth management firms and banks to automatically suggest the product that a client may be interested in. They aim to increase client satisfaction and avoid wasting both the client’s and the relationship manager’s time with inappropriate offers.
5 things that open banking has given us
As the dust starts to settle on the implementation projects related to PSD2 in the European Economic Area, it's time to reflect on what is happening with the move to open banking and ask, what has it given us so far - and is it really just about payments?
Open Banking, Open Banking Platforms, Open API's, ecosystem, Open Banking Provider
3 key drivers of innovation in the open banking platform economy
What factors are driving innovation in open banking? Can the platform economy really work for the banking industry?
Is it time to redefine the risk-based portfolio approach?
The introduction of a highly automated portfolio-based advisory process and the use of quantitative portfolio risk has led to a new advisory paradigm. In this post, we explore the challenges that come with this.
Change from a single-instrument to a risk-based portfolio approach in wealth industry
With the implementation of MiFID II in Europe and similar standards in other jurisdictions, wealth advice has effectively shifted from a “single-instrument approach” to a “risk-based portfolio approach”. This blogpost is an introduction to what this means.
wealth management solutions, investment solutions, machine-generated investment strategies, automated portfolio
Why automation in the wealth advisory process is becoming critical
Managing investments using automated technology can have clear advantages for both providers of investment solutions and investors. We will explore some of them in this blogpost.
digital assets, crypto, blockchain, digital private wealth, wealth management
How will blockchain transform the wealth management industry?
Blockchain is a disruptive force but also a transformative one. This is how it is transforming the wealth management industry.
digital wealth management, wealth management solutions, client centricity
How the risk-based portfolio approach supports client centricity - or does it?
Increasingly, financial advisors have to determine which category their clients belong to. This blogpost shows how MiFID and FIDLEG guide wealth managers towards a more client-centric approach.
digital private wealth, wealth management software, digital wealth management, wealth management solutions
What makes an effective digital wealth management solution?
Digital wealth solutions have become a priority for financial firms catering to tech savvy investors. Read on to find out what features such solutions need.