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At Jamesbeck, we’ve noted a number of trends in financial services this year in the area of recruiting, including the salient issue of diversity.   Recruiting: It's all about Disruption, Alternatives, FinTech, & Quant   The top areas for recruiting in 2019 are as follows:   Senior leadership with an eye towards dynamic, disruptive leaders willing to make systemic changes in organizations, and in the manner businesses are structured and managed; Multi-asset solutions; Alternatives strategies, particularly in the private markets and real assets; Technology, data and Fintech; Quant investing; and Analytical and system-minded people who can span across functions.   In other recruiting trends, we’ve observed that non-solicit and non-compete clauses

I was recently approached by one of my clients with questions regarding current staffing and compensation trends in the investment management industry. What follows are some insights into recent activity we at Jamesbeck have observed in these areas.   Staffing: Back office and operations jobs are outsourced and senior staff replaced by cheaper, junior employees   Firms are both growing staff in value-added areas such as multi-asset, data sciences, and private market strategies and reducing headcount in ‘commoditized’ functions. As firms seek to cut costs, back-office, operations and middle-office jobs are being hit hard. These positions, as well as manual tasks, are either being outsourced