Mitä naissijoittajat haluavat?
Kauppalehdessä joulukuun alussa ilmestyneessä kolumnissaan Riitta Lindegren kokee ongelmalliseksi sen, että “naisille opetetaan sijoittamisen alkeita kirjoissa ja seminaareissa, mutta nimenomaan naisille räätälöityinä”. Lindegrenin mukaan “naisille on kautta aikain uskoteltu, että sijoittaminen on heille liian vaikeata” ja setelikasvojen miesvaltaisuus kertoo oletettavasti koko rahamaailman maskuliinisuudesta. 1)Naisten kasvokuvat seteleissä ovat minusta sukupuolten tasa-arvon kannalta täysin epäolennainen asia, mutta onneksi nykyaikana kuka tahansa voi halutessaan saada esimerkiksi luottokorttinsa haluamallaan naiskuosilla tai vaihtaa taustakuvaksi ihailemansa naisen kasvot. Pitänee vakavasti harkita esimerkiksi Rose Wilder Lanen, Deirdre N. McCloskeyn, Dambisa Moyon, Isabel Patersonin, Joan Robinsonin, Ayn Randin, Margaret Thatcherin tai Elinor Ostromin kasvokuoseja. 3)Livingston, E. (2016). “Why putting women on banknotes should make us feel uneasy“. The Guardian, 26.4.2016 Matti Keloharjun ja Antti Lehtisen muutaman vuoden takaisen tutkimuksen mukaan Suomessa osakesijoittajista miehiä on 58 prosenttia, jonka lisäksi miesten hallussa on noin 70% kaikesta osakevarallisuudesta. 2)Tämän lisäksi miesten ja naisten keskinäiset omistus- ja varallisuuserot kasvavat kaikissa Keloharjun ja Lehtisen tutkimuksen varallisuusluokissa miesten eduksi. Naiset itse eivät kuitenkaan vaikuta kokevan sijoittamista kovinkaan vieraaksi aihealueeksi. 4)ks.…
What’s Going on in the Social Trading and Investing Space?
As I explained in my earlier article, social investing is not a totally new idea as seeking for help, advice, and tips have been part of investing as long as people could invest money. The ongoing trend of democratizing investing and banking for the masses is closely tied to the rise of fintechs (e.g., robo-advisory), newly emerged business models, the ever-wider distribution of new financial products, and the trust gap created by the recent global financial crisis. Also, as Dan Schutzer highlights, there are new ways to effectively fund new ventures, incumbents are still struggling with various environmental changes and credit is tight, technology-assisted solutions are everywhere, and our means utilizing and accessing information are changing. Social trading and social investing represent the new trend of technology-assisted, socially-driven, and DIY models of investing. We also have some concrete evidence on the effects of social media on retail and institutional investor behavior and trading activity as well as…
“Why Don’t They Copy Me?”: On the Rise of Social Investing and Social Investment Networks
Social investing and various kinds of social investment communities are not entirely new things. Sharing insights and opinions on different investments, investment philosophies, investment strategies, and financial markets, in general, has been part of our lives for years. Investors, as well as any other kind of communities of interest, have been utilizing mailing lists, discussion forums, and online chats as long as they have been in existence. Even today, beginners and experienced investors rely on each other’s opinions and viewpoints when setting up their investment targets, strategies and picking up particular financial instruments when executing specific investment strategies. 1)“Social investing/trading” should not be confused with “socially responsible investing/investment” as they are very different things. In Finland and Sweden, for example, we have witnessed the emergence of very lively and dynamic financial blogosphere in relatively short timespan. Numerous of books, articles, conferences, podcasts, blogs, and people offer diverse opinions on investing…
Book Review: FinTech Innovation by Paolo Sironi
There is no lack of differing opinions on the future of wealth management as everyone wants to be heard. We know for sure that the future of wealth management industry is most definitely shaped by the influx of new technologies, significant global regulatory turbulence, and various changes in the customer behavior. So what else is new? We have recently witnessed how new players have entered – with great success – to areas of the financial services industry that were considered off-bounds for innovative new entrants, and even the mainstream C-suite is constantly talking about going all digital. 1)Financial Times (2016). Barclays UK sees digital technology as crucial to its future. [Accessed 3 Aug 2017] It’s no wonder that the wealth management industry is very keen to understand how the complex equation of growth versus profitability is supposed to work in the era of growing revenue and expense pressures combined with…
Lisää indeksiantibiootteja, kiitos!
Kuvittele sellainen bisnes, jossa muut ihmiset antavat sinulle rahansa hoidettavaksesi ja maksavat tästä sievoisesti. Vielä parempaa on se, että palkkiosi nousevat vuosi vuodelta, vaikka olisit auttamattoman huono työssäsi. Kuulostaa täydelliseltä. [- -] Tätä bisnestä kutsutaan rahastonhoidoksi. – The Economist (28.2.2008) Keskustelua passiivisen ja aktiivisen sijoittamisen välillä on käyty jo vuosikymmeniä, mutta passiivisesta sijoittamisesta on ryhdytty laajamittaisemmin keskustelemaan vasta 2000-luvun alusta alkaen. Erilaisten indeksituotteiden jatkuvasti laajenevat valikoima, alhaiset kulut, verotehokkuus ja parempi riski-tuottosuhde ovat osoittautuneet valtaosiltaan paikkansapitäväksi mainospuheeksi. Passiivisen sijoittamisen kasvavalle suosiolle on monia syitä ja Yhdysvalloissa on Bloombergin mukaan nykyään enemmän markkinaindeksejä kuin pörssiosakkeita. Passiivinen (indeksi)sijoittaminen voi käytännössä saada monenlaisia muotoja, mutta tyypillisimmin sillä tarkoitetaan sijoitusstrategiaa, jossa sijoittaja “luottaa perinteiseen ‘osta ja unohda’ -tyyppiseen sijoitustyyliin … [jossa] osakepoimintaa ei harrasteta ja markkinoiden hintaliikkeitä ei ajoiteta.” (Oksaharju 2013, 52-53.). Morningstarin tutkimusjohtaja John Rekenthalerin mukaan aktiivisten rahastojen liiketoiminta on pohjimmiltaan tarinankerrontaa, jossa vastuu on kuulijalla. Rekenthalerin mukaan aktiiviset sijoitusrahastot kertovat pintapuolisesti lupaavilta vaikuttavia tarinoita, mutta nämä…
Chatbots for wealth management, trade execution, and portfolio management? Yes, please!
Chatbots are gaining some momentum in the financial services industry in Finland. OP Financial Group has been at the forefront of launching a relatively large amount of experiments. Other Finnish banks and financial institutions have been rather passive but at the moment OP Financial Group is setting the bar quite high. Kotipizza’s collaboration with OP Financial Group is an example of a transactional chatbot for ordering food (simply order through Facebook Messenger and pay with Pivo app), last year OP’s Pivo Penni (a chatbot for students) turned out to be a short-lived test, and in addition OP launched an invite-only financial management chatbot Pivo Alfred (spending analysis) last December. Unfortunately, there has been no further news about S-Bank’s collaborative chatbot project since last year. In the US, many banks and other financial institutions have already deployed chatbots. As many commentators have already pointed out previously, there are various forms of chatbots ranging from customer service,…
The new retail deposit marketplaces are here, and they are not messing around
It’s well-known that retail payments, accounting, e-commerce solutions, merchant acquiring and retail lending are the most well-developed and quickly matured segments of the fintech industry, both regarding executed deals, the number of investments, and compound annual growth rate (see Tanaya Macheel’s post on fintech funding). This should not be very surprising as there are still various low-hanging fruits ready to be grabbed by innovative new entrants. It's important to have a plan for #fintechs. Growth is coming from #insurtech & #assetmanagement. Don't forget #regtech #finnishfintechtalks pic.twitter.com/rMDblb82UV — Thomas Brand (@thlbr) May 4, 2017 We are still waiting for similar momentum to gather pace in coming years in multiple other parts of the financial services ecosystem, e.g. corporate finance, corporate payments, SME lending and asset finance, and insurance. It’s true that from the perspective of basic banking products and services, financing and credit have already been hit hard by the fintechs on all fronts by alternative finance…