With Singapore as a leading regional investment management hub, the IMAS DAP will ultimately serve as a gateway for Start-ups/Fintechs aiming to venture into the industry in South-east Asia. Partner with IMAS as we continuously innovate and create the future of investment management, together.
How can non-standardised trades be processed, matched and settled in a quick and accurate manner?
How can we have consistent and up-to-date measurements of ESG standards and requirements to better equip asset managers to – visibly and with impact – incorporate ESG considerations in to investment programs and portfolios?
How can we have automate the form-filling process for asset management firms in a more accurate and efficient manner?
How might we better streamline the process to conduct risk assessment of outsourced vendors, to provide a robust platform for internal management of outsourced services while ensuring compliance to outsourcing regulation?
How might we create a smart document parser to streamline and enhance the process of information extraction and analysis for the financial analysts?
How might we more effectively and confidently scan the regulatory environment to identify change and assess its impact, and efficiently manage change to ensure compliance in our businesses across all the jurisdictions we operate in?
How might we automate the production of ESG performance reports using our current data sources, providing compelling and salient reports for our clients?
How might we more efficiently on-board institutional customers, both in Singapore and abroad, so that we can confidently and legally begin to service them?
How can we use technology to better quantify sustainable (ESG) impact of a portfolio?
How might we utilise a gaming platform to build investment knowledge and learn the basic principles of investing for retail investors for better and well-informed investment decisions?
How might we improve our internal processes and derive relevant insights, particularly through utilising our data, in order to operate more effectively and efficiently?
How might we use technology in a cost competitive manner so that we can better predict, monitor and manage an Asset Management Company’s internal and external obligations to regulatory changes globally?How might we obtain real-time, customizable updates and analysis on new and revised compliance, regulatory and tax requirements globally?
How might we use collect and capture data electronically and use it as a proxy for economic growth such as sales, inflation and shipping activity?
How could we leverage data from satellite analysis to provide a measure of economic activity (with a focus on emerging countries and Asia) and actionable insights?
How could alternative data (e.g. credit card transactions, hotel/airline billing, digital identity) be used to measure sector performance (e.g. tourism, retail spending)?
Official economic data statistics (especially in emerging countries) may be of poor quality and published late. We use this information in relation to investment decisions.
How might we:
The current practice of information / data gathering is not comprehensive-, smart or intelligent-, or cheap and accessible-enough, which could be due to data owners’ practices.
How could Investment Managers apply AI and Machine Learning to optimize models and to use data to enhance investment decisions and returns?
Rule-based algorithms may be too simplistic, error prone and cannot learn and adapt to market changes.
Given the widespread usage of masking and hacking tools, how might we detect, identify and predict cybercrime (financial or non-financial)?
How could we use technology to optimise the Client Experience and become more effective (e.g. AML processes during client onboarding, refreshers, annual reviews, cross sell and upsell)?
How might we use technology, alternative sources of data and analytics to understand end investors better so that we could design solutions to that will be more suitable and attractive to them?
Investment managers do not have access to end investors directly and associated data and thus have to react to intermediaries’ demand for product or insights which are rarely shared
How might we use technology to distribute our products directly to underserved / unserved end investors and ultimately grow the pool of ready investors across Singapore?
How could we leverage technology to create a cost-effective solution for mass customised client reporting and insights?
There are many different types of reports required by clients across different touch points and relationship models. Reports are often heavily customised & manual and they are specific to the client type (Institutional, Intermediary or even end investors)
How could we use technology to automate, digitize in-house processes to reduce costs, simplify practices and transform experiences for both clients and employees?
Investment managers interact with a number of service providers to execute an order.
How might we provide an engaging and user-friendly education experience for the Investment Management industry, and drive self-learning to create a workforce of the future?
“The evolution of the investment management industry is inevitable with the major innovations and advancements in technology in recent years. With technology at their hands, full potential of human capital can be put to use as they move up the value chain. The monotonous, routine and analytical works along with more complex data, trend and pattern analysis will be delegated to automation for its efficiencies, scale and cost benefits.
This augmentation will eventually allow business to derive more value from the same workforce as more time is spent on generating new ideas, interactions with clients and deriving decisions based on available information. We believe embracing digital disruption and technology companies will create more jobs than it replaces as the businesses will grow faster. The early movers will also have the time advantage to prepare their workforce for this new reality and take lead in this digital disruption. The future opportunities lie in the augmentation of human capital and technology rather than replacement of one for another.
The programs like IMAS DAP can play a crucial role in bringing the ecosystem together under one roof to ideate, innovate and implement the future of finance”
Enable: If you think about the entire value chain of an Asset Manager, today everything from distribution to portfolio optimisation is mostly in-house. Given the resource constraints each individual firm has, the quality of each stage of that value chain that an individual Asset Manager can pragmatically effect is challenged. Technology companies do one thing and one thing only within that value chain. If Asset Managers are open enough to clearly identify what they are good at and are willing to work with technology companies to source the parts of the value chain where their track record of capital efficiency, cost or performance is weak, it could greatly enable their stakeholder outcomes.
Transform:Some technology companies faced with the frustration of selling into a rather unsophisticated B2B buying process in the Asset Management industry are raising sufficient capital to compete directly across the whole value chain. They are going B2C and we will see a horde of new fully digital Schroders, T Rowe Prices from asset aggregation from retail clients all the way to capital deployment through global mandates. This will dramatically change the intermediation cost models that we see in the current incumbents from asset aggregation to deployment and make it really difficult for incumbents to compete.
Essentially, Asset Managers that learn to work with lean and cost-effective high performant technology companies will thrive given the strength of their franchise, client servicing models and track record while technology companies that manage to successfully challenge the incumbents across the whole value chain will usher in a whole new operating model.”
"Buy-side, investment managers are starting to recognise more and more the value of automation and are embracing technology to ease the regulatory burden. The collaboration within the IMAS DAP allowed ClauseMatch to better understand the specific challenges faced by the investment management industry, and to tailor its solutions to address their needs."
"We're definitely lucky to be among those 10 companies selected to join the very first cohort of the IMAS DAP accelerator in Singapore this year! The focus of this program provided us with invaluable experience in the form of live collaboration and mentorship with one of the leading companies in the industry - Aberdeen Standard Investments. It has formed a solid basis for our product development for the industry."
