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Citi GPS: Global Perspectives & Solutions February 2015<br />
Figure 13. Passive investment market share as % of retail AUM<br />
Figure 14. Investment company industry employment<br />
% U.S. Retail AUM<br />
30%<br />
25%<br />
20%<br />
15%<br />
10%<br />
9% 10%10%11%12%13%14% 16%<br />
28%<br />
26%<br />
24%<br />
23%<br />
21%<br />
19% 20%<br />
200K<br />
150K<br />
100K<br />
50K<br />
$20T<br />
$15T<br />
$10T<br />
$5T<br />
5%<br />
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014-<br />
Index + ETF Market Share<br />
YTD<br />
0K<br />
1997 1999 2000 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013<br />
Est. # of employees<br />
Invest. Comp Total AUM<br />
$0T<br />
Source: Citi Research Source: ICI Factbook 2014<br />
The financial distribution process is helped<br />
by automation through the increase in<br />
passive instruments such as ETFs<br />
Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US approved an<br />
application for an “exchange traded managed fund’ or ETMF. This marks a<br />
milestone in the evolution of the mutual fund industry, and provides an interesting<br />
application of automation to a financial service distribution process that has been in<br />
place for many years.<br />
ETMFs represent “disruptive innovation” to the traditional actively managed mutual<br />
fund industry. This arises from their objective to transfer the traditional methods of<br />
buying/selling mutual funds to an “exchange traded” instrument. As with other forms<br />
of disruptive innovation, we expect an extended time line consisting of early<br />
adopters before moving to broader market appeal. Yet, the evolution of passive<br />
exchange traded products to a wrapper enabling exchange trading of actively<br />
managed mutual funds, and with it, cost savings to the investor derived from<br />
efficiencies of an exchange traded approach, provide an interesting application of<br />
technology-driven automation into the financial services industry. Not only have<br />
ETFs lowered pricing and taken share, the economies of scale of winning funds has<br />
also seen share concentration in the hands of a few providers.<br />
Programmatic and Self-Service Shaking up the Digital<br />
Advertising Ecosystem<br />
Mark May<br />
US Internet Analyst<br />
What is programmatic advertising and why<br />
should I care?<br />
Technology is also transforming advertising. In particular, programmatic advertising<br />
has become a dominant force in the buying and selling of digital media and we<br />
forecast the portion of Internet advertising transacted programmatically in the US to<br />
grow at a 4-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49% between 2014 and<br />
2018. Underlying the increasing adoption of programmatic is marketers’ desire to<br />
automate the buying and selling of inventory, leverage internal data and cut costs<br />
through reduced headcount and a more efficient allocation of ad dollars. With its<br />
growing momentum, programmatic has the potential to be highly disruptive to the<br />
advertising ecosystem, make other technologies and processes obsolete and<br />
reduce the need for human input in the buying and selling of advertising.<br />
Simply speaking, programmatic advertising is the buying and selling of digital<br />
inventory through automated methods of transaction. Traditionally, most media<br />
(including digital media) was transacted through a manual campaign-by-campaign<br />
request for proposal process that frequently included various advertising parties,<br />
slow negotiations and relatively high expense. Programmatic is helping streamline<br />
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