Market Insight Archives

The ugly truth is that looks matter

If your website doesn’t look attractive, visitors are less likely to stick around long enough to fully digest the content. A bad customer journey is confusing, has mixed signals and offers the user no clear path to get from point A to point B to point C. In this article, we outline some of the key areas companies need to be thinking about when it comes to their websites.

23 July 4 mins

What marketers can learn from industrial design

Things like texture, colour, the shapes used; these, often subtle, elements all become sources of brand strength because, when done well, they are identifiable.

18 July 2 mins

What is good design?

You can tell when something has been shoddily put together or it hasn’t been applied with passion and love. You can see through all of that, and it speaks volumes about the people behind it – both the commissioner and the doer.

10 July 4 mins

When to refresh your brand: a graphic designer’s perspective

Brands are living, breathing things. They grow, evolve – and sometimes need a makeover to stay fresh and relevant. A brand refresh is more than just switching your logo, though. It’s about updating your visuals and messaging to reflect who you are today, not who you were five or 10 years ago.

03 July 2 mins

The Investment Marketing Scoop: Focus on Account-Based Marketing

Pivoting under cost pressures through more a targeted approach. In an environment where marketing budgets are squeezed and…

11 May 2 mins

The Investment Marketing Scoop: Future Talent Pools

Long term initiatives are developing future talent. Low rates of employee engagement, higher demands for workplace flexibility and…

25 April 3 mins

The Investment Marketing Scoop: Measuring CX

As a concept, Customer Experience (CX) is famously woolly and resistant to tangible measurement. However, it's clear that…

18 April 2 mins

Seize the moment: now’s the time to instill plain English in our fund descriptions

The asset management industry has breathed a collective sigh of relief over the abolition of the PRIIPS regime – and for marketers that includes the Key Information Document (KID).

22 December 3 mins

The FTX collapse and how to market a gold rush

Recent weeks have been dominated by the much-publicised collapse of the Bahamas-headquartered FTX, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume.