INSIGHTS – Mass Customization Versus Mass Production – How an Industrial Revolution is About to Take Place in Money Management and Why it Involves a Shift From Investment Products to Investment Solutions
Lionel Martellini
Volume 14, Number 3, Third Quarter 2016
While mass production has happened a long time ago in investment management through the introduction of mutual funds and more recently exchange traded funds, a new industrial revolution is currently under way, which involves mass customization, a production and distribution technique that will allow individual investors to gain access to scalable and cost-efficient forms of goal-based investing solutions.