2020 Industry Evolution Survey: Health and Real Economy Crises Rock Investment Management Industry – Citi – 7.21.20

Summary:

Citi Business Advisory Services focuses on how the COVID-19 Crisis is seen affecting the broader investing environment over the coming year and how survey participants anticipate that the pandemic may work to accelerate trends toward consolidation and change in the investment management industry. The discussion will touch on technology and operating model pressures for the investment managers; concerns about the potential for a boomerang crisis and expectations around how far the impacts of the health and real economy crisis might extend based on the duration of the pandemic; models of how declining AUM may impact the bar-belling of the industry, potentially leading to a new wave of M&A, targeted acquisitions, team lift-outs or new types of affiliation models to achieve scale; emergence of “Wave 3” solutions that move the industry to a new realm of personalization and are seen taking into consideration not only investor’s assets, but also their liabilities; and which technology has become a competitive necessity to meet the resiliency requirements of the pandemic age and how demands are growing for operational optionality and for greater leverage of firm’s own data and insights.

Speakers:

Jayme Colosimo is the ESG Lead for Citi’s Business Advisory Services team which serves as the strategic consulting offering to institutional clients and produces thought leadership on a range of topics and developing trends in investment management. Prior to joining Citi in 2018, Jayme served as a Senior Economist and Strategic Advisor to White House and senior U.S. policy makers on global macroeconomic, geopolitical, and international banking issues. She was awarded a Presidential Daily Briefing Commendation and two Meritorious Unit Citations during her service. Earlier in her career, Jayme led teams of relationships officers in Private Services and served as a Financial Analyst in the Office of the CFO at Zions Bank. Jayme holds a Professional Certificate in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley and completed sponsored Executive Education at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She holds an M.B.A. with an emphasis on Organizational Behavior and a Bachelor of Arts in International Business from Westminster College. Jayme is an AA Certified Advanced Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Professional Developer, an American Marketing Association (AMA) Professional Certified Content Marketer, and holds Series 7 and Series 63 securities licenses.

Jonathan currently works on Citi’s Business Advisory Services team, which conducts primary research on the investment management industry and publishes thought leadership around how the industry is evolving. The team uses this thought leadership as the foundation for providing bespoke consulting services that help individual clients address gaps or problem areas in their own organization and are offered as an added value to Citi clients and prospects. Jonathan covers tech innovation within the investment management process and focuses on emerging technologies such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and homomorphic encryption.

Before joining the Business Advisory Services team, Jonathan rotated as a Credit Sector Specialist on the Investment Grade Credit Trading Desk.