The ProFundCom team has curated the best events, opinions, insights and resources relating to digital marketing from the previous month as well as looking forwards to the month ahead. The team not only look to bring you the best articles for investment managers and hedge funds but also articles, in general, that marketers find useful.
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ProFundCom Report – Digital Marketing Review of Top 100 Hedge Funds 2023
Welcome to ProFundCom’s inaugural digital marketing review of the biggest 100 hedge funds in the world! These hedge funds may be top investment performers but how does their digital marketing stack up? We analysed their websites according to the accessibility of information and quality of engagement to see who’s coming out on top, and the results were surprising. Very few scored highly across our 10 criteria, with just five firms scoring over 80% and a staggering 30 firms scoring 20% or less. A few simple changes to digital strategy would bolster the scores across the board, ultimately widening reach and generating new leads. Download Report
White Marble Marketing – 5 Investment Marketing trends we’re looking out for in 2023
As we look forward to the year ahead, it’s important to stay on top of the latest trends in the investment marketing industry. From collective confusion around ever-changing regulations to the continued growth of digital marketing strategies (who else has spent the last week testing out ChatGPT?), these are the trends that have defined the world of investment marketing in 2022. Whether you’re an investor, marketer or financial professional, it’s essential to stay informed and adapt to these changing trends in order to remain competitive and successful in the ever-evolving world of finance. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at our team’s predictions for next year. Read more
Marketing Week – 2023 Winners – ‘Tip of the iceberg’: How Wickes used AI to drive £7m in incremental revenue
2022 marks the culmination of two years’ investment in behavioural science, machine learning and deep segmentation at home improvement brand Wickes. Praised for its innovative approach, the retailer swept the board at the Marketing Week Awards in November, winning the awards for Retail and Ecommerce, Best Use of Segmentation and the coveted Grand Prix. Read more
Peregrine – ESG in 2023: The Press Agenda
I predicted last year that we’d see more “scrutiny and accountability” from the press around sustainability. Then came the war. Coal plants re-started across Europe and countries struck deals for gas wherever it was available. We saw the press struggle to balance these changed circumstances with a genuine desire to hold companies and governments to account. Will this change? The war is very much an ongoing concern, triggering an energy crisis and exacerbating a looming recession. Climate may struggle to top the agenda. In absolute terms, media interest continued to surge. We saw growth in our research around sustainable themes when we reviewed these in the spring. There’s a continuing process, where the media move from general openness around sustainability stories to applying increasing judgement to individual initiatives. This will continue. Read more
ProFundCom Report – Using A CRM To Raise And Retain Assets – The Insider’s Guide 2023
Everyone in sales or marketing within a fund has one ultimate purpose: To raise and retain assets. There are many different roles and responsibilities involved in making that happen, but that’s the one and only goal of sales and marketing teams. Of course, it’s not easy. It’s a fiercely competitive and ever-changing sector, where the big beasts of the jungle – Blackrock, Vanguard et al. – take a large slice of the market. But there is one thing that can help you massively and get you ahead in the fight to win new clients and keep your existing ones:The CRM. A capable and functioning CRM is a money-making machine, as it helps you track the journey of prospects and existing clients so that you can understand their motivations, likes and dislikes. And this gives you the information you need to bring a new investor on board – or stop an existing client from walking out of the door. Is it easy to do? No. At least not without the right guidance. This report will give you an insight into how to use your CRM in the fight to raise and retain assets. At ProFundCom, we’ve been helping our clients with CRMs for two decades. And I’m going to delve into all that knowledge and experience to take you through the key points that you need to know to use your CRM effectively. Download report
The ProFundCom Digital Marketing Benchmark provides real-time access to all of ProFundCom’s digital marketing data from over the last 15 years, giving users the ability to compare how their marketing campaigns are performing versus sector peers. Further detail of how other organisations are carrying out similar processes and the associated results are also available. The anonymised data is over 10 terabytes in size (which interestingly is the amount of data produced by the Hubble Space Telescope per year!) and will be split into different industry sectors as well as AuM. Access ProFundCom Benchmarking here
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