New York Angels’ Tech Stack

I asked Liz Lindsey, Executive Director of New York Angels, and Jon Zaikowski, Assistant Director, to share some details on New York Angels’ tech stack and use of analytics.  HBS Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) and New York Angels are the two biggest angel groups on the East Coast, to my knowledge. This...

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Interview: VC and Disruption of the Investment Management Industry

Angelo Robles, Founder of the Family Office Association, just posted a video interview with me.  We cover Versatile VC’s strategy and many other topics relevant to family offices. The Family Office Association also just published our full white paper on “Who Is Disrupting Investment Management, And How?” For the slide deck and video presentation version...

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The Investment Manager of the Future

What does an investment management firm look like, if you redesign it based on first principles and based on the true “jobs to be done” of an investment manager? That’s what we’re working on building at Versatile VC. We outline below the five characteristics that will differentiate the winning investment management firm of the future:...

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What Are the “Jobs To Be Done” of an Investment Manager?

Most money managers think their main job is generating alpha, but they are wrong. We discuss the real “job to be done” of an investment manager. If you ever studied disruptive innovation formally, you know the pattern. In many industries, low-end disruptors take hold at the bottom of the market and then work up to...

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The Macro Trends Forcing Change on the Investment Management Industry

Power in the investment management industry is shifting to Money Holders from Money Managers, driven by several major economic, social, and political trends. Collectively, these are an irresistible force meeting a moveable object: the traditional asset management industry structure. We highlight below five key trends impacting our industry: 1. As women and millennials become key allocators,...

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Ripe For Disruption: The Asset Management Business

Joe Reilly, CEO of Circulus Group, family office expert, and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report, interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. Reilly: You’ve been co-leading a research project on innovation in the investment management industry, which...

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