Category Archives: Marketing Operations
Four Key Capabilities to Look for in a Content Automation Solution
For most asset management firms, data-driven materials like pitchbooks, fund fact sheets, and quarterly commentaries are key business drivers. Yet, those materials are also often the cause of the biggest bottlenecks in the sales and marketing process. That’s why many firms are automating their content production. They know automation means reducing the time it takes to get materials to the sales team and then prospects. In addition, by minimizing the manual effort entailed in creating materials, automation will allow marketing teams to reduce the risk of errors and gain efficiencies that lead to significant long-term cost reductions.
But not all content automation solutions are created equal. If you’ve been contemplating investing in automation, you may be asking: Which solution is the best? The short answer is: the one that removes the most time and risk from your process. Below are some key capabilities to consider when evaluating content automation providers.
Upscaling Your SMA Distribution Efforts
Separately Management Accounts (SMAs) are on a roll. Traditionally designed to target the wealthiest individuals and families, defined benefit plans and endowments, they’ve often been treated as a niche product or a way for managers of mutual funds to manage multimillion-dollar portfolios directly.
But that’s changing. According to research from Cerulli, assets held in SMAs grew by 34% year-over-year from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 and now command a 16% share of the $9 trillion held in managed accounts. Cerulli’s research also indicated that advisors planned to boost their usage of SMAs by 19% in 2022 while reducing the use of mutual funds by 12%.
The Growing Importance of ADA Compliance for Accessible Investment Marketing Communications
This is a guest post by Jen Goulden, M.A., EDP, UEB Technical Accessibility Compliance Specialist at Crawford Technologies.
If you’re in the field of investment marketing operations or communications, you have already heard of document accessibility and ADA compliance. Accessibility is about conformance to a standard such as WCAG 2.0/2.1 or PDF/UA. So, what exactly is meant by the term ADA compliance, and what is the Section 508 ICT Refresh?
9 Easy Steps to Develop Your Strategic Plan in 30 Days
This is a guest post by Dan Sondhelm, CEO of Sondhelm Partners
If you were too busy dealing with the day-to-day minutiae and putting out fires instead of the mid-year distribution review, don’t worry. You still have time to kick start the year with a sound strategic plan to create or improve your growth strategy for the new year. Here’s what you need to focus on to get that done.