It has been telling to look at the recent attempt by Euronext, one of Europe’s largest stock exchanges, to acquire Allfunds, the global distribution platform. Although the transaction did not succeed, it was an interesting indication of how much distribution operation matters in the investment management industry. This is giving us an opportunity to look a little bit further under the hood of distribution operations and examine how the sales efforts can be enhanced and powered by an efficient and disciplined support model.

We are delighted to share the new AlgoMe Consulting IQ in which we have a packed agenda of in depth articles and case studies. In this issue, we will be focusing on how to grow and thrive in a new environment, and how to prepare all around for this.

Times have changed and so have work patterns. In this new podcast episode, with guest Luuk Jacobs, Partner AlgoMe Consulting, we discuss how people in the industry are working today and what this means for firms.

In our new podcast we discuss the 2023 playbook for the Investment Management industry and we look ahead to the rest of year with AlgoMe Consulting partners Luuk Jacobs and Pierre-Yves Rahari.

Welcome to our first 2023 episode of the Coffee With AlgoMe Consulting podcast. We decided recent news of the acquisition of RBC Investor Services by CACEIS was well worth talking about.

There have been similar transactions across the industry and therefore, it is more than likely a few pressing questions will come to the mind of those CXOs overseeing global fund operations and outsourcing their activities to service providers: What is the rationale for such transactions? What are the benefits for the entities involved? What is the impact of such transactions, for me as a client, or for the investors that my firm is servicing? Listen to the episode to hear our discussion.