BCG Expand provides front-to-back the asset management space with benchmarking covering costs, pricing, productivity, and profitability, enabling asset managers to improve margins, and scale efficiently.
BCG Expand provides industry leading benchmarking, cost optimisation and competitor intelligence capabilities across the 3rd party ecosystem, including Market Data and Brokerage, Clearing and Exchange costs.
Asset Management technology spend has grown +55% since 2014 (3% in '25), and is expected to grow as firms explore AI use cases. BCG Expand support clients through industry-leading benchmarking of Tech and Ops cost, effectiveness, and resourcing.
End-to-end catalogue optimisation and market-data advisory that enhances transparency, improves pricing and consumption efficiency, and unlocks measurable value across your data estate.
BCG Expand’s Brokerage Fees Benchmark provides an independent, data-driven view of your brokerage cost performance, identifying savings opportunities, and helping you align commercial arrangements with market best practice.
People are the most important resource for Asset Managers, and they represent the biggest category of cost. As such, a firm's human capital strategy is critical to success. BCG Expand allows clients to gain insight into the human capital strategies of their peers to help refine their own people strategy.
BCG Expand has 20+ years of experience running annual front-to-back benchmarking with ~150 players covered across regions. The benchmarking provides clients with an opportunity to diagnose their front-to-back operations and business performance.
BCG Expand's Asset Management Market Sizing offering provides a comprehensive, and granular view of the market size and growth, allowing us to help clients identify pockets of growth.
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