'Asset management is ripe for disruption' - Nucleus

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Victoria McKeever
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The asset management industry "is ripe for disruption", Nucleus founder David Ferguson has said, with the greater integration of technology and its resulting push for transparency.

Speaking at the lang cat DeadX Talks, which this year centred around ‘The ghosts of asset management', Ferguson (pictured) said financial services firms would be unable to ignore the greater focus on transparency introduced by the increasing integration of technology. "Asset management is ripe for disruption… I think when we talk about technology, we talk about apps, new efficiencies and business models but we miss the single most important thing technology has given us - which for me is transparency," he said. "If you're unable to accept that and embrace it in your business model the...

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