Future of Asset Management
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Twenty years ago the discussion over the future trends of asset management will likely have revolved around the world of mobile phones and the internet. Fifteen years ago those in the asset management world produced unprecedented gains for their clients as the internet and these so-called “tech-stocks” exploded onto the scene throwing the likes of google, Microsoft and dell into the limelight and creating the aptly named “Microsoft Millionaires” - the Microsoft secretaries, admin assistants, programmers etc who had bought a few hundred dollars worth of shares at the beginning and seen that holding suddenly increase a million-fold.
Smart investors are always looking for the next best thing to come down the road because they know that the early bird gets the worm. The first people who get into a new investment or whole new field of investing are the ones that are likely to make the most money. This is common knowledge and will probably never change but the fields that they are looking at are constantly changing.
It may have been talked about for many years but the current industry and indeed the wider public belief that the next and current big “bubble” as some industry insider choose to call it, is the “green” sector. This refers to areas such as renewable/alternative energy and similar types of conservational companies providing that service that either directly or indirectly benefit the environment. It is widely seen that as stores of natural gas and a growing concern over climate change and global warming, this industry won’t just be a choice that companies make to improve public opinion of their operations but simply the only option. When this happens, it goes without saying that the value of these companies will increase exponentially and essentially make them the same as the likes of Exxon and BP - two of the worlds largest companies. ]
Carbon offsetting and carbon credit trading has recently crept into the investment world and crated a whole new multi-billion pound market, and this is sure to continue growing as the government bring in more and more new legislation requiring companies to purchase carbon credits. The concern that has plagued the carbon credit investment and trading community is one that has led many to dismiss them, and that is concern over the real damage that global warming is causing. Many feel that it is exaggerated and almost, particularly in the capitalist investment world, an exaggeration made for the “hippy” generation to get active about. If this was the case, the market would collapse and many thousands of pounds would be lost. However, day-by-day more people take notice as the effects of global warming are verified further so many are now looking to take advantage of this market before the wider world take notice in the same way that many tech-savvy investors looked to get on board early in the internet revolution of the nineties.
Green investing and the carbon credit market are beginning to show very similar signs to those shown in the nineties and every day interest in the market grows.
Smart investors are always looking for the next best thing to come down the road because they know that the early bird gets the worm. The first people who get into a new investment or whole new field of investing are the ones that are likely to make the most money. This is common knowledge and will probably never change but the fields that they are looking at are constantly changing.
It may have been talked about for many years but the current industry and indeed the wider public belief that the next and current big “bubble” as some industry insider choose to call it, is the “green” sector. This refers to areas such as renewable/alternative energy and similar types of conservational companies providing that service that either directly or indirectly benefit the environment. It is widely seen that as stores of natural gas and a growing concern over climate change and global warming, this industry won’t just be a choice that companies make to improve public opinion of their operations but simply the only option. When this happens, it goes without saying that the value of these companies will increase exponentially and essentially make them the same as the likes of Exxon and BP - two of the worlds largest companies. ]
Carbon offsetting and carbon credit trading has recently crept into the investment world and crated a whole new multi-billion pound market, and this is sure to continue growing as the government bring in more and more new legislation requiring companies to purchase carbon credits. The concern that has plagued the carbon credit investment and trading community is one that has led many to dismiss them, and that is concern over the real damage that global warming is causing. Many feel that it is exaggerated and almost, particularly in the capitalist investment world, an exaggeration made for the “hippy” generation to get active about. If this was the case, the market would collapse and many thousands of pounds would be lost. However, day-by-day more people take notice as the effects of global warming are verified further so many are now looking to take advantage of this market before the wider world take notice in the same way that many tech-savvy investors looked to get on board early in the internet revolution of the nineties.
Green investing and the carbon credit market are beginning to show very similar signs to those shown in the nineties and every day interest in the market grows.
