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28<br />

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 />

© 2015 Citigroup

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