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08/03/2021

💥We're in Forbes! Our "Digital Age Wealth Management" report and The Market Map for Wealth Management Software Vendors got a very sweet feature.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2021/03/08/financial-services-software-selection-has-to-move-past-traditional-rfps/?sh=5745c144797d

19/02/2021

aperture, the Swiss strategy consultancy, today launches its “Market Map for Wealth Management Software” as part of an in-depth report, “Digital Age Wealth Management” looking at the customer, technology and business model trends transforming the industry. The Market Map has been introduced ...

17/02/2021

Over the last few months we have been working on a comprehensive report looking at the digital wealth management opportunity, with a focus on business model innovation and benchmarking wealth management software vendors. And it's finally live!

Whether you are

- an industry analyst,
- a VC/PE investor,
- a technology provider,
- a wealth/asset manager or
- a business leader looking to unlock the digital wealth management opportunity,

this report provides you the fresh perspective you need.

With it, we are also introducing The Market Map, a new methodology aiming to upgrade vendor assessment criteria to help those charged with selecting, scaling or investing in wealth management software solutions (WealthTech) to make better informed decisions about what characteristics matter in the digital age.

Totaling over 150 pages, this report is a beast:

81 charts and tables
13 in-depth vendors profiled in The Market Map
12 companies to watch
10 digital-age business models

The Market Map is a new wealth management software evaluation methodology designed to assess the key criteria for systems in the digital age.

07/02/2021

🎙️ Our podcast is live, featuring Stian Westlake, co-author of 📚 ‘Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy‘ and we discuss the implications of an economy built increasingly on intangible assets, even more so in the post-pandemic world.

In this episode:
- we discuss the four S’s that explain how intangible assets 📈 behave differently than tangible ones 📉
- why it's much harder (but potentially more rewarding) for companies to strategize and execute around intangible assets
- why we’re not seeing more economic growth or higher productivity right now, even though intangible assets are more scalable
- what governments need to do to mitigate the increased income inequality that’s occurring in part due to the rise of intangible investments, and more.

Stian serves as the Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society. Previously, he served as an advisor to three British ministers for science, innovation, research, and higher education. He also led the policy and research team at Nesta - UK’s National Foundation for Innovation.

Our guest is Stian Westlake — Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society and co-author of 'Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy'.

01/02/2021

Our next podcast (live this Thursday, Feb 4th) will feature Stian Westlake, co-author of 'Capitalism without Capital' and we discuss the implications of an economy built increasingly on intangible assets.

🔥 Epic conversation! Subscribe to not miss out. Link in comments.

24/07/2020

🔥 Our strategy digest just went out to our email subscribers.

It covers great reading materials on the geopolitical fragmentation of the internet, cybercrime implications and the battle for hegemony, the changing nature of globalization and updates from our community.

Geopolitical fragmentation of the internet, cybercrime implications and the battle for hegemony, the changing nature of globalization…

25/06/2020

The aperture | Digest is back! 💥

Packed with curated content on strategy and business models.

Dear Friends, It’s been a while since our last newsletter, we hope you have all been keeping well. We’ve changed slightly our focus with…

21/05/2020

This month last year, our business was launched to the market to offer strategy and marketing services to companies.

We did it because we could see the world of work was changing. The best people we knew wanted autonomy and the option of working across multiple projects to keep learning. At the same time, it was obvious – even before COVID-19 – that proximity to the office was becoming less relevant, allowing companies to work with the best people wherever they are and increasingly on-demand.

Our model is underpinned by the fact that knowledge workers, when it comes to their relationship with employers, need better Exit mechanisms (rather than Voice): accumulating demand from short-term employers; orchestrating unbundled, siloed tasks into attractive projects that also command pricing power; facilitating learning through interaction; building a different kind of safety net that's adapted to the fragmented nature of knowledge work; re-thinking staff loyalty from continuous captivity to vision alignment; creating independence with a sense of interdependence.

One year on, it seems to be working. We’re growing and taking on new people all the time. And we’re working with a diverse group of fast-growing and exciting companies – everything from (challenger) banks to (craft) breweries, helping them develop, launch and grow digital age businesses.

Thanks to all the clients who took a punt on us and all of the strategists and marketeers who have chosen to work with us.

If you want to read more about our thesis, here's the blog we published one year ago:
https://medium.com/aperture-hub/the-rise-of-the-growth-platform-b67b6d919b94

23/02/2020