Wealth Management in Australia 2009

리서치사	Datamonitor
발행일	2009년 08월	상품코드	98120
페이지 정보	47 pages
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Abstract

Introduction

The global economic crisis has had a major effect on Australia' s onshore wealthy population, potentially causing them to lose faith in their wealth managers. To keep clients, wealth managers need to know what this lucrative customer wants from them, in terms of products, services and interaction.

Scope of this research

HNW demographic and attitudinal attributes based on our Wealth Management Market Leaders Survey 2009
Extensive primary research from 16 wealth management companies highlights their strategies for revenue growth, acquiring and keeping clients

Research and analysis highlights

Australian HNWs are displaying typically defensive behavior in the face of the economic instability, and have lifted their proportion of assets held in cash in 2009. Despite this, equities still accounted for the largest share of average portfolios.

Clients place great importance on their personal relationship with their wealth manager, and Datamonitor recommends that providers should be increasing their client contact during the downturn, as it provides an opportunity to return confidence to the client after most have lost significant amounts of their wealth.

Australian wealth managers see increased face-to-face contact, gaining better leverage from relationship managers and convincing clients that they are financial sound as key methods to increasing share of wallet.

Key reasons to purchase this research

Understand the HNW population' s investments by sector and geography, appetite for risk, and reasons for choosing/leaving their wealth service
Assess the threats and opportunities for wealth managers by understanding how peers are planning to grow revenues, acquire and keep clients

OVERVIEW

Catalyst
Summary
Methodology

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The wealth of Australian investors suffered at the hands of the global financial crisis
HNWs have become more defensive, but equities still represent an important asset for the future
Wealth managers are expected to invest resources into equities in the future, while financial stability has become particularly important for clients in the downturn

AUSTRALIA' S WEALTH

After years of solid growth, the wealth of Australian investors was impacted by the global financial crisis
- The Australian labor market started struggling in 2008
- Conditions for business owners weakened, making it harder to generate wealth
- Events in the global economy sparked selling pressure in the local stock market
- Property prices in Australia declined after staging a small recovery in the lead up to 2008
Australian investors continued to pulled money out of equities
- A flight to safety from household investors saw deposits become heavily favored in 2008
- The wealth data in 2009

THE AUSTRALIAN HNW INVESTOR

Australian HNWs have become more defensive in 2009, but they remain more risk-seeking than the Asia Pacific average
- Equities represent an important asset class for Australian HNWs
- Over the next two years, equities and deposits will remain the most important asset classes for HNWs
Australian HNWs have superior knowledge of investments and are more demanding towards their wealth managers
- HNWs exhibit higher-than-average knowledge of products and market conditions
- Australian HNWs are demanding when it comes to their wealth management service
The global downturn has shifted the demands of Australian investors
- Due to uncertainty in the markets, the majority of HNWs want investments that they can easily understand

THE AUSTRALIAN WEALTH MANAGER' S VIEW

Over the next two years, HNWs will be demanding direct equities and, as a result, wealth managers are planning to focus most of their resources on this area
- The majority of HNW clients will be demanding direct equities over the next two years
- Wealth managers expect to focus their resources on direct equity investments over the next two year
While personal relationships are still key in HNWs choice of wealth managers, they are focusing much more on the financial stability of providers
- Financial stability is very important to HNWs in Australia
- Australian wealth managers see personal relationships as their biggest strengths and investment performance as their biggest weaknesses
Increasing face-to-face contact, better leverage of CRM and convincing clients that the firm is financially sound are important factors for increasing share of wallet
- Financial stability has emerged as an important attribute this year for wealth managers to possess
Australian wealth managers are contacting their clients more frequently than their Asia Pacific counterparts
- Australian wealth managers contact their clients over the phone more frequently than the Asia Pacific average
- Australian wealth managers are slightly ahead of their Asia Pacific counterparts at getting in front of their clients
- The performance of individual asset classes and the investment opportunities of today are what HNWs most want to talk about when they speak to their wealth manager

APPENDIX

The drivers of growth in the wealthy population
- Income growth (combined with inflation, changes in GDP by sector, household savings rates and debt levels)
- Investment returns (market capitalization, interest rates and bond yields)
The following measures are not, in themselves, drivers of wealthy population growth
- Market capitalization
- GDP
The following measures are not drivers of wealthy population growth except under very restricted circumstances
- Primary residence value growth
- Inheritance
Methodology
- Wealth Management Market Leaders Survey 2009
- Global Wealth Model
Bibliography
Definitions
- Asia Pacific
Further reading
Ask the analyst
Datamonitor consulting
Disclaimer

TABLES

Table: What proportion of your HNWs' portfolios is allocated to the following five asset classes?
Table: HNWs portfolio allocation by product area now and in two years' time
Table: HNW attributes on a scale of 1 to 4 (1 = very low, 2 = somewhat low, 3 = somewhat high, 4 = very high)
Table: HNW attributes on a scale of 1 to 4 (1 = very low, 2 = somewhat low, 3 = somewhat high, 4 = very high)
Table: What are HNWs demanding today?
Table: Over the next two years, how much demand do you expect from HNWs for the following product areas?
Table: What product areas will your wealth management service focus most resources on over the next two years?
Table: What will determine HNWs' choice of wealth management service over the next two years?
Table: What are your company' s biggest strengths and weaknesses today?
Table: What is the most effective means of increasing share of wallet today?
Table: On average, how often do your relationship managers speak by phone to each HNW client?
Table: On average, how often do your relationship managers speak in person to each HNW client?
Table: When speaking with clients, what do they most want to talk about today?

FIGURES

Figure: In 2008, the Australian labor market was hit by higher unemployment and lower average wages
Figure: The global financial crisis had a dampening effect on business conditions and confidence in 2008
Figure: Like most developed economies in the Asia Pacific region, Australia' s stock market declined sharply in 2008
Figure: After a small surge in home prices between 2005 and 2007, prices declined in 2008
Figure: Australian investors adopted a defensive attitude towards investing in 2007 and 2008
Figure: The majority of Australian HNW wealth is invested in equities, with this accounting for 26% of all investments
Figure: By 2011, the majority of HNW assets in Australia will be invested in equities, with this accounting for a quarter of all investments
Figure: HNW investors in Australia have greater product knowledge than the average Asia Pacific HNW investor
Figure: Personal relationships and personal contact are still paramount in retaining HNWs
Figure: In Australia, HNW investors' greatest demand is for simple, transparent investments
Figure: Over the next two years, the greatest need among HNW investors in Australia will be for direct equity investment, with 92% of HNW investors demanding this category of product
Figure: Wealth managers in Australia will be focusing most of their resources on direct equity investment over the next two years
Figure: HNW investors in Australia will be most influenced by a provider' s personal relationships with its clients when choosing a wealth manager over the next two years
Figure: The greatest strength of wealth managers in Australia is their personal relationships with clients
Figure: The best way for wealth managers in Australia to increase share of wallet is to increase face-to-face contact with their clients
Figure: In Australia, most relationship managers speak to clients by phone approximately once a week
Figure: Relationship managers speak to clients in person between once a month and once a quarter
Figure: The majority of clients in Australia want to speak to their wealth manager about the performance of specific asset classes within their portfolio