Seven trends in investment management to watch out for

RONALD N Kahn's book, The Future of Investment Management, drew its inspiration from the changes that have transformed the finance industry over the last several decades.

"What we do today and particularly what we do today in the details," Mr Kahn told delegates at the 72nd CFA Institute Annual Conference in London held from May 12 to 15, 2019, and hosted by CFA Society of the UK, "is completely different from what we did 20 years ago."

So from his perch as managing director and global head of Systematic Equity Research at BlackRock, Mr Kahn surveyed the landscape and sought to answer two questions: "What has changed, and how should we change with it?"