Financial Technology
Direct Indexing & The Financial Technology Opportunity
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Is Direct Indexing the Next Frontier for Fintech?
As fractional shares and the disappearance of brokerage commissions have removed barriers to personalized portfolio solutions, direct indexing has come to the fore.
Technology is essential to offering a successful personalized index. Asset managers need to build a console that allows the advisor to construct portfolios in consultation with their clients and communicate this information to the portfolio manager. Solutions that can automate, customize, and scale across thousands of accounts are essential to the personalization aspects of direct indexing.
Asset Managers’ Assessment of the Opportunity, 2020
Big players are acquiring fintech capabilities and new separately managed accounts (SMAs) are hitting the market. Is direct indexing a tax-efficient way for high-net-worth (HNW) investors to invest or a broader entrance to mass customization of wealth management? There are many important pieces of technology needed to automate, customize, and scale trading across thousands of portfolios—is now the time to explore opportunities in this space?
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Daniil Shapiro, CFA
Director
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Daniil Shapiro, CFA
Director
Daniil is part of Cerulli’s Product Development practice, where he works on the identification, analysis, and reporting of asset management industry trends with a focus on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and alternative investments.
Prior to joining Cerulli Associates, Daniil was part of the Product Management and Business Intelligence teams with the MainStay Funds, part of New York Life Investment Management. At MainStay, Daniil supported sales efforts via fund and ETF competitive analysis, product research, and development of marketing materials, as well as performance reporting. Before New York Life, Daniil was part of the risk management practice at Accenture, and held risk and compliance roles at HSBC’s investment bank.
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Brendan Powers, CFA
Director
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Brendan Powers, CFA
Director
Brendan is a member of Cerulli’s Product Development practice, which focuses on trends related to asset managers’ product development and management functions. This broadly includes assessing the opportunity for product development, evaluating emerging product trends, and understanding distribution and product positioning for investment products across retail and institutional channels.
Prior to joining Cerulli, Brendan worked as a Senior Client Associate at Eaton Vance Management, focusing primarily on the firm’s exchange funds.
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