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Machine learning and artificial intelligence are all hot topics right now. The demand for personalization in investment is growing, and the growing demand for sustainability is fundamentally changing professional requirements in the financial sector.
Team Player
The era of celebrity portfolio managers is over. Today’s businesses aim for agility, competitiveness, customer focus, and innovation. Furthermore, they confront increased rivalry for workers, resulting in more frequent personnel changes, and they are increasingly relying on teams and mixed working groups from several disciplines.
Because teams with varied experiences and viewpoints are less prone to making bad decisions and groupthink, cognitive diversity is increasingly important. The trend toward more teamwork is cited by 49 percent of the managers we polled as a significant driver of change in the sector.
Adaptability: According to CFA Institute’s survey, 89 percent of industry leaders predict that financial professionals’ roles and responsibilities will change numerous times over their careers. 77 percent of them, on the other hand, believe that the world of work in the investing business will change more in the next ten years than it has in the previous ten.
Companies should be changing mde in this dynamic climate. As a result, professionals who can exhibit a high level of adaptability and multidisciplinary thinking are in higher demand.
Jack of all trades: T-shaped skills are the most coveted form of competence overall, according to 49 percent of investment executives polled. They are far ahead of management skills (21%), soft skills (16%), and technical knowledge (10%). (14 percent ). The ability to combine professional depth and expertise with a broader awareness of relationship management is referred to as ‘T-shaped capabilities.’ This involves a high level of situational adaptability, multidisciplinary thinking, a strong personal network, and a thorough awareness of the company’s processes as well as the larger corporate context.
Creative aspect: Employers will be more interested in particularly creative and imaginative specialists in the competition for the most attractive employers. Managers say that creativity/innovation (32%), multidisciplinary thinking (29%), and solution or customer-oriented working techniques (29%), are some of the most difficult skills to find in the labour market. Even specialised knowledge in IT and computer science, which is frequently highlighted as a critical requirement by employers, trails soft abilities like empathy, modesty, and a natural ability to communicate. Of course, this does not negate the need of technical and financial competence. On the contrary, these abilities are taken for granted in the labor market. In addition to professional competence, you’ll need interpersonal awareness and many ideas to separate yourself from the competitors.
Technological Aspect: Future investment professionals will increasingly be able to distinguish themselves by utilizing technology to improve the quality of their job and investment performance. In contrast to the prevalent but all-too-simplistic vision of computers replacing people, the investing sector’s future will be built on the complementarity of AI + HI (Artificial Intelligence + Human Intelligence). People will be responsible for “training” technology, providing excellent customer service, recognising clients’ needs and expectations, and developing creative, individually personalised offers. On the other hand, machines are well-suited to bolster successful strategies, evaluate enormous amounts of data for hidden patterns, and carry out dull, repetitive jobs.