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Given higher market awareness, there is less need for education. Instead, thought leadership can look at addressing complexities, such as around geopolitics, ESG or artificial intelligence in a way that is relevant to the financial solution in question. How might mega-trends, such as ageing populations, re-shoring factories, automation and technological innovation influence long-term inflation and interest rates? That in turn has implications for a range of financial products used for hedging, financing, IPOs, M&A and so on. It also has huge implications for investing, risk evaluation and the performance of the different asset classes.

A more normal interest rate environment, historically speaking, might signal a return to the outperformance of more conventional lower risk investment strategies, for instance?

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Such mega-trends provide a rich seam of material to mine for thought leadership ideas. There are many complex interacting trends that need explaining, maybe require new frameworks, strategies and different ways of looking at the world. Those findings may provide surprising insights that are contrary to prevailing views, which could be very compelling when backed by data and strong arguments.

Again, this helps build trust in a firm’s expertise and the fact that it list of jamaica cell phone numbers is thinking about the challenges impacting its clients and is providing helpful solutions. It demonstrates deep forward looking thinking, which gives potential clients a degree of confidence.

More generally, good thought leadership can reinforce the positioning of a firm’s expertise, drive search engine rankings (search engines favour original and useful content), foster greater lead generation, create more social media sharing and increase ‘mind share’ in the market.

Indeed, thought leadership should partly be seen as an act of generosity. It is spreading valuable knowledge while accepting that not every consumer of it will lead to business. And the higher the quality of that thought leadership, the more it will highlight that the originator of that knowledge holds unique and valuable insights. It may not lead to new business straight away, but it could do so somewhere down the road.