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Strictly Private and Confidential Citi Markets & Securities Services Business Advisory Services 10 th January 2019 Four Trends Re-Shaping Investment Management Presentation for the Economic Club of Florida For Institutional Clients Only Citi Business Advisory Services Global: Sandy Kaul, 212-723-5118 [email protected] EMEA: Robert Crossley, +44 (0) 207 986 9255 [email protected] US: Matt Kummell, 212-723-2848 [email protected]
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Strictly Private and Confidential

Citi Markets & Securities Services – Business Advisory Services

10th January 2019

Four Trends Re-Shaping Investment Management Presentation for the Economic Club of Florida

For Institutional Clients Only

Citi Business Advisory Services

Global: Sandy Kaul, 212-723-5118 [email protected]

EMEA: Robert Crossley, +44 (0) 207 986 9255 [email protected]

US: Matt Kummell, 212-723-2848 [email protected]

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Agenda

2

Improved Factor Understanding Drives New Thinking About Portfolio Construction

Investors Demonstrate a Significant Shift to Passive Over Actively Managed Funds

Actively Managed Funds Re-Align to High Conviction, Thematic & Alternatives

Emerging Technologies Offer Potential to Democratize Access to Real Assets

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Rethinking Asset Class Diversification

3

Equities

Bonds

Alternatives

Exposure to

Companies

Common Factor

Exposures

Volatility

Inflation

Growth

Momentum

Geography

Sector

Equities

Credit

Rates

Hedge Funds

Private Equity

Real Assets

Common Factor

Exposures

Inflation

Growth

Liquidity

Currency

Geography

Sector

Co

mp

an

ies

Real Assets

Rates

Diversified

Asset

Class

Exposures

Since the late 1950s, investors have sought to build diversified portfolios of asset class

exposures that seek to balance risk and reward, but our understanding of risk is evolving

• By diversifying across asset

classes, investors should be

able to find the best possible

return for the least possible risk

• Asset classes are not mutually exclusive units

• Many are comprised of exposure to a set of

companies that share common risks

• Real assets and rate-linked

investments also share many

common risk factors, several of which

overlap with company risk factors

Evolving Understanding of Portfolio Diversification

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Risk Balancing

4

Equities

Bonds

Alternatives

0

Over-

Exposed

Desired Range

Asset Class Fund Allocations

Volatility

Inflation

Growth

Momentum

Liquidity

Duration

Credit Risk

Real Rates

Emerging

Markets

Factor Exposures

To ensure diversification without disrupting their existing fund allocation, some institutions go long

or short specific factor exposures outside their desired range to balance their portfolio holdings

Aggregate

Exposures

Adjusting for Factor Exposures at a Portfolio Level

Buy

Exposure

Sell

Exposure

Under-

Exposed

• Many sophisticated institutional investors look to manage their unintended

factor exposures, but there is significant debate as to whether this practice

undermines the value of the core allocations Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Re-Categorizing Allocations Based on Return Profile

Equities

Bonds

Alternatives

Asset Class

Low

Volatility

Bond-

Like

Returns

Higher

Volatility

Equity-

Like

Returns

Illiquid

Limited

Mark-to-

Market

Returns

Quant

Long-

Short EQ

Emerging

Markets

Equity

Distressed

Bonds

G-10

Rates

Fund

Systematic

Macro

Return Profile

Other investors are re-thinking whether asset classes are the best way to categorize and diversify

their portfolio—many are beginning to re-assign strategies based on their return profile

Re-Assigning Strategies Based on their Return Profile • A wide variety of sub-strategies can be

found within the Equity, Bond and

Alternatives buckets

• Sub-strategies offer highly divergent

return profiles:

• ,Some align to low volatility bond-

like returns

• Some align to higher volatility

equity-like returns and

• Others are illiquid and very long-

term in nature and are thus only

occasionally marked-to-market to

track their contribution

• Some institutions have now begun to re-

categorize these various sub-strategies

and group them more effectively to reflect

the types of risks and return streams they

offer to the portfolio

• This is seen as helping ensure better

diversification and more effective risk

control according to participants in

proprietary Citi surveys

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Re-Thinking Sources of Investment Returns

Improved risk technologies allow investors to slice and dice portfolios to look more deeply into

what is the driver of returns and thus better isolate and target the specific sources of returns

Sources of Investment Returns

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

Technical

Factors:

Idiosyncratic

Exposures

Momentum

Volatility

Duration

Liquidity etc.

Style

Factors

Growth

Value

Quality

Credit Grade etc.

Risk

Factors

Sector

Exposures

Geographic

Exposures

Financials

Automotive

Energy

Consumer Goods etc.

Local Market

Developed Markets

Emerging Markets

Specific Countries etc.

Interest Rate Sensitivity

Credit Risk—Ability to Repay

Equity Risk—Earnings on Cash

Inflation Sensitivity etc.

Asset

Selection

& Capacity

Fund or Portfolio

Return Attribution

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Increasing Use of Index Exposures in Portfolio Construction

Technical

Factors

Style

Factors

Risk

Factors

Sector

Exposures

Geographic

Exposures Asset

Allocation

EQ B A

External

Active

Managers

Active

Index

Selection

External

Active

Managers

A more precise view of the various sources of return for the portfolio allows investors to replace

many expensive active managers with low cost indices for much of their exposures

Shifting Approach to Portfolio Construction Traditional Approach Emerging Approach

Idiosyncratic

Exposures

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Agenda

Improved Factor Understanding Drives New Thinking About Portfolio Construction

Investors Demonstrate a Significant Shift to Passive Over Actively Managed Funds

Actively Managed Funds Re-Align to High Conviction, Thematic & Alternatives

Emerging Technologies Offer Potential to Democratize Access to Real Assets

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Impact of Rising Index Offerings

Technology is enabling managers to dynamically identify and construct indices or baskets of

securities to provide exposure to specific factors, shifting factor-related returns from alpha to beta

Reclassification of Outperformance to Beta

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services. *“What’s Behind the Falling Number of Public Companies?”, Vanguard.com,

https://advisors.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip/site/advisor/researchcommentary/article/IWE_InvResBhndFallPublCompanies

*1995: 32 Stocks to

Each Tradable Index

2016: 1.2 Tradable Indices

To Each Stock

• The ever-expanding variety of tradable index offerings are allowing investors to directly access sources of return

that used to only be available through active management and that were considered to be “outperformance”

• Now those return sources can be captured as an alternate type of market return or “beta”, helping to explain why

increasingly, investors are only viewing idiosyncratic returns as alpha-generating

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Drivers of New Portfolio Construction Approach

28

59

37

14

4 6 6

4

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

US Large Cap US Small/MidCap

Non-US EQ US FI (Core)

Active Managers Passive Funds

Actively Managed vs. Passive Fund Fees

Actual Paid by Institutional Investors: 2016

Ba

sis

Po

ints

*Data as of 2017. Sources: Left-hand Chart: Citi Business Advisory Services analysis based on proprietary data subscriptions to SimFund and eVestment. US Mutual fund data from

www.ici.org. Right hand chart: Callan 2017 Investment Management Fee Survey. Active fees are for the largest category of investor (cheapest fees) and passive fees represent average

across all investor bands. https://www.callan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Callan-2017-Investment-Manager-Fee-Survey.pdf

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Nu

mb

er

of F

un

ds

Growth in Number of Passive Fund Offerings

ETFs & US Index Funds

1,667

7,593

The number of index offerings increased 4.5X between 2007 and 2017—the growing variety of

index offerings and cost advantage is helping drive the move away from actively managed funds

AUM Growth by Category

2007-Q3 2018:

Equity ETFs: +5.7X $3.9T

Bond ETFs: +13.4X $823B

Int’l ETFs: +7.2X $767B

Asian ETFs: +8.6X $508B

US Index MFs: +3.9x $3.4T*

• The number of passive fund offerings has expanded

dramatically in the past decade

• Growth has occurred across a wide range of categories,

boosting the variety of indices that investors can choose

to gain exposure

• Smart Beta funds that isolate specific technical and style

factors are further expanding investor options

+4.5x

• Fee advantages are a major reason that many investors

are choosing to utilize low-cost ETFs and indices

• The largest institutional investors that can command the

lowest fees paid between 14 bps for US Core Fixed

Income and 59 bps for US Small/Mid-Cap actively

managed funds in 2016 according to Callan

• By contrast, the range for passive funds was 4-6 bps

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Decisive Shift to Passive Fund Exposures

37

786 531

190

-432 -549

679

-145

424

515

461

647

640 927

1,263

282

564

-290

(1,000)

(500)

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 1H18

Investo

r F

low

s

(US

D b

illio

ns)

Passive

Active

Passive Funds

2011-H1 2018 : $5.2T

2015-H1 2018: +$3.1T

Active Funds

2011-H1 2018: +$1.1T

2015-H1 2018: -$447B

Comparison of Net New Flows into Actively Managed vs. Passive Funds

Since 2011,net new investor flows into passive funds has outstripped flows into actively managed

funds by nearly 5X – with flows into active managers showing a net negative since 2015

• Net investor flows into passive funds topped $5.0 trillion between 2011 and H1 2018, a figure 4.7X larger than the

net new flows into actively managed funds

• Active fund managers have in particular struggled since 2015 as both the financial press and global regulators have

been vocal in their views about how fees negatively impact long-term returns. Since 2015, actively managed funds

have registered outflows of $447 billion through H1 2018

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Source: Citi Business Advisory Services based on proprietary data subscriptions to Morningstar, eVestment and Simfund

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Improved Factor Understanding Drives New Thinking About Portfolio Construction

Investors Demonstrate a Significant Shift to Passive Over Actively Managed Funds

Actively Managed Funds Re-Align to High Conviction, Thematic & Alternatives

Emerging Technologies Offer Potential to Democratize Access to Real Assets

Agenda

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Select

Cross-

Universe

Securities

Shifting Goals for Actively Managed Funds

Performance / Benchmark

Benchmark Universe Benchmark Universe

Benchmark

High Conviction Sub-Set Full Set of Securities

Benchmark

Universe

Benchmark

Universe

Benchmark

Universe

Traditional Active Funds

Active managers with returns too close to a benchmark that can be replicated through a cheaper

index fund are becoming more active in their security selection to generate differentiated returns

High Conviction Funds Thematic Funds

Performance Performance

Actively-Managed More Actively-Managed

• Traditional actively managed funds

overweight or underweight securities

across the entire benchmark universe to

outperform—this makes for returns

tightly clustered around the benchmark

• High conviction funds choose a sub-set

of securities, concentrating their bets

across a fewer number of names so

that correct choices can outperform the

benchmark by a more significant degree

• Thematic funds choose securities

across several benchmark universes,

uniting those choices by a common

characteristic in the pursuit of

uncorrelated opportunistic returns

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Market Share Changes

2008 to H1 2018

Growth Accelerates in New Active Fund Categories

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

9000

Active Core Specialty Long (Ex-ESG)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

2008 H1 2018

Active Core Specialty Long (ex-ESG)

27% 35%

65% 73%

AUM Growth 2008 to H1 2018

+$8.6T

+$7.6T

• Specialty long funds that include

high conviction strategies added

nearly as much AUM as active

core funds over the past decade

• Specialty long funds grew by

115% between 2008 and H1

2018,rising from $6.6 trillion to

$14.2 trillion and gaining 8%

market share over active core

• Active core grew 47.5% in the

corresponding period from $18.0

to $26.6 trillion—losing 8% share

Though AUM in traditional long only active core funds rose over the past decade, the pace of

growth trailed those funds that offer more specialized or thematic strategies

Bill

ions o

f D

olla

rs

350

550

750

950

1,150

1,350

1,550$1.4T

$639B

Growth in ESG / Impact Funds

Bill

ions o

f D

olla

rs

• The most widely recognized category of thematic funds are those

that isolate companies that lead their industries in environmental,

societal or governance practices (aka ESG or impact funds)

• Total AUM has more than doubled in these funds over the past

decade, rising to $1.4 trillion in H1 2018

• In our proprietary surveys, Institutional investors cite their belief that

these companies will outperform their peers over time due to already

existing practices and investments whereas retail and wealth

investors focus on these funds as a way of impacting the world with

their investment dollars

+48% +115%

Sources: Top charts: Citi Business Advisory Services analysis based on the Boston Consulting Group Global Asset Management Study 2018, https://www.bcg.com/en-

us/publications/2018/global-asset-management-2018-digital-metamorphosis.aspx Bottom Chart: Citi Business Advisory Services analysis based on proprietary data subscriptions to

Morningstar and eVestment 13

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More Opportunities & Interest in Private Markets More foundational issues exist in the publicly traded markets beyond a shifting approach to active

management and the move to passive--more and more activity is occurring in the private markets

Source Left Hand Chart: Citi Business Advisory Services Analysis based on proprietary subscription to Preqin. Source Right Hand Chart: Citi Business Advisory Services based on

Dealogic data to 30 June 2017

• Ready availability of private capital is allowing more companies to forego the public markets – especially small firms

with valuations below $50 million; more growth opportunities are now only to be found in the private markets

• Many private companies express concern about short-termism in the public markets; institutional investors also see the

focus on short-term financial results as out of sync with what is required to sustain long-term growth

• While cash may be available, staying private makes it harder for their employees to monetize their wealth tied up in

these companies and boxes investors unable to meet suitability thresholds out of many growth opportunities

Dry Powder in Private Equity Investments Downward trend in US & European IPOs

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190

-432 -549

679

-145

647 640

927

1,263

282

880 907

812

1,043

433

-1,000

0

1,000

2,000

3,000

2014 2015 2016 2017 1H18

(US

D B

illio

ns)

Alternative Flows Dominate, Focus on Most Illiquid

Total Industry Net Flows: Active, Passive & Alternative

2014 to H1 2018

Source left hand chart: Citi Business Advisory Services based on proprietary data subscriptions to Morningstar, eVestment, Simfund, HFR, and Preqin.

Right hand chart: Citi Business Advisory Services based on proprietary data subscriptions to Simfund, Preqin and HFR..

Net inflows into Alternative products outstripped passive flows in recent years with 79% of that

money going to the industry’s most illiquid assets in private equity, real estate & infrastructure

• Global flow data shows that investors have moved into

illiquid funds and private markets in their search for yield

and diversification

• While flows into passively traded funds from 2014 to H1

2018 totaled $3.8 trillion, alternative fund flows were +8%

larger at $4.1 trillion in the corresponding period. These

figures compare to a net outflow of -$257 billion from

actively managed funds

• Flows have not just been directed to alternatives as a

whole, but into the two most illiquid portions of the

alternatives space

• Private equity inflows totaled $2.0 trillion between 2014

and H1 2018 (49%) and real estate and infrastructure

accounted for $1.2 trillion (30%)

Alternatives: +$4.1T

Passive: +$3.8T

Active: -$257B

Private Equity $2,006 B

49%

Infrastructure & Real Estate

$1,221 B 30%

Private Debt $467 B

12%

Liquid Alts $323 B

8%

Hedge Funds $58 B

1%

Breakdown of Inflows into Alternatives 2014 - 1H18 ($4.1Tn)

15

79%

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80.1% 74.2%

97%

16.9% 22.2%

0%

50%

100%

Corp DB Public DB IRAs

Cash

Alternatives

Equities & Bonds

Demographic Challenges for Industry

$1

$2

$3

$4

$5

$6

$7

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

$6.6T

$2.1T

$5.3T

Baby Boomer Retirements

Assets Managed for Institutions Less

Assets Managed for Individuals (US)

Accelerating Baby Boomer retirements are shifting the industry to one where individuals will be

left to manage more of their own money, resulting in less robust and diverse portfolios

2017 Portfolio Allocation

U.S. Corporate & Public DB Plans vs. IRAs

Individuals limited

to equity & bonds

• The bulk of professionally managed U.S. assets are

invested on behalf of institutions that can use their

more sophisticated status to access a wider array of

illiquid and sophisticated investment options

• With Baby Boomers retiring and pulling their money

out of defined benefit and defined contribution plans,

there is a shift underway—by the early 2020s, more

of the industry’s assets are going to be managed on

behalf of individuals, not institutions

• Institutional investors have shifted a significant share of

their portfolio into alternative investments

• These alternative investments offer both an illiquidity

premium and the potential to access cash flows

uncorrelated to listed companies

• Individuals are limited to such public companies in their

investment options and most are over-exposed to only

one real asset—their home

Sources: Left hand chart: Citi Business Advisory Services analysis based on proprietary data subscription to Cerrulli Associates. Right hand chart: Citi Business Advisory Services analysis

based on proprietary data subscription to Cerulli Associates and on Willis Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study 2017, https://www.willistowerswatson.com/en/insights/2017/01/global-

pensions-asset-study-2017, proprietary subscriptions to Hedge Fund Research (HFR), Morningstar, eVestment, SimFund, and Preqin, http://investments.yale.edu/about-the-yio/

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Improved Factor Understanding Drives New Thinking About Portfolio Construction

Investors Demonstrate a Significant Shift to Passive Over Actively Managed Funds

Actively Managed Funds Re-Align to High Conviction, Thematic & Alternatives

Emerging Technologies Offer Potential to Democratize Access to Real Assets

Agenda

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Understanding the Architecture Underlying Digital Assets

Blockchain / Distributed Ledgers

Smart Contracts

Big Data & AI Analytics

Pro

du

ct

Arc

hit

ec

ture

Cryptocurrencies Coin Offerings

Ne

w P

rod

uc

ts

• New digital assets have garnered many headlines and

resulted in highly volatile and unregulated parallel capital

markets activity

• Regulators are looking into establishing rules for these

markets, but their future is uncertain

• The architecture that these products are built upon,

however, can be levered to create registered investment

products that may democratize access to alternatives

Early digital assets such as Bit Coin have been greeted with widespread skepticism by many but

the architecture underlying such assets may help democratize access to alternative investments

Digital Assets & their Underlying Architecture

• Big Data & AI Analytics: New technologies developed

by Google allow for the processing of huge, unstructured

data sets and the application of “smart” toolkits such as

machine learning and natural language processing

• Smart Contracts: New digital contracts code in the

terms of execution, link such terms to specific data-driven

triggers that can be monitored using Big Data & AI

analytics and allow for the self-execution of those terms

when a trigger is activated

• Distributed Ledgers: Distributed ledgers record

transactions but have 3 advantages over traditional

ledgers: 1) all interested parties can simultaneously see

transactions; 2) each transaction is secured by two

independently verified crypto-keys; 3) the entire history of

each transaction is contained in each entry Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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New Shared Ownership Models for Access to Real Assets

Carve Out Minority

Share of a Real

Asset

Divide Minority

Share of Asset Up

into Individual Units

Access Natural

Level of Demand by

Fractionalizing Unit

• Co-investing in real assets

features a majority asset owner

“sharing” their ownership

stake with either an outside

entity or the crowd

• Unitizing assets entails

breaking up the shared

investable pool into a pre-

determined number of fixed

pieces

• Tokenizing each investable unit

allows demand be adjusted down

to fractional bits that can meet

trading interest from both large

and small investors

Tokenization might enable today’s models around crowd-investing and unitization for ownership of

real assets to extend to a more democratized set of investors with smaller liquidity thresholds

MAJORTY

SHARE OF

REAL ASSET

MINORITY

SHARE OF

REAL ASSET

MINORITY

SHARE OF

REAL ASSET

UNITS OF

REAL ASSET

OWNERSHIP

TOKENS OF

REAL ASSET

OWNERSHIP

FRACTIONAL UNITS

IDENTICAL

SMART

CONTRACTS

DESCRIBING

OWNERSHIP

RIGHTS SEPARATE

CONTRACT

DESCRIBING

MINORITY

OWNERSHIP RIGHTS

SEPARATE STANDARDIZED

CONTRACTS DESCRIBING

UNIT OWNERSHIP RIGHTS

BLOCKCHAIN LEDGER

ABILITY TO REASSEMBLE

FRACTIONAL UNITS BACK

TO ORIGINAL WHOLE

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Opportunity for Financial Instrument Innovation Survey participants in our Industry Revolution report envision new real asset models and the

blueprint underlying cryptocurrencies to create a new investment instrument--Ownits

• Expand the “shared ownership” model to a broad set of

real assets

• Make this approach affordable by dividing these assets up

into units

• Create a new registered digital token using smart

contracts that define the rights of the unit owners and embed

the contracts into the blockchain

• Facilitate fractionalization and secondary liquidity

• Leverage existing primary and secondary market

transmission mechanisms

New Solution:

New Liquid

Ownership Units

(Ownits)

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Ownits as New Investment Vehicles

Ownits would create the ability to have a listed ownership unit that offers the owner both financial

and non-financial rights to the underlying asset as well as a set of utilization rights

Model of an Ownit

Ownits may offer a series of financial and non-

financial rights in the underlying asset:

• Financial Rights: Total return investment,

including both cash flow participation and

long-term appreciation of the underlying

asset

• Ownership Rights: The Ownit owner can list

Ownits on their financial statement, pass the

Ownit on to their heirs or choose to transfer

ownership to another holder

• Utilization Rights: Ownit holders could partake

in the utilization of their asset via incentives

such as discounted rates and preferential

consideration for use or access

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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Ownits Might Be Used to Solve Many Investor Problems

Institutional Investor

Frees Up Liquidity in

Existing Real Asset Holding

Pension Plan Supplements

Liability Shortfall via

Extension of

Utilization Rights

Individual Business Owner

Finances Capital

Improvements Through

Shared Ownership Model

Use Cases to Highlight Potential of New Investment Template

• Problem: Institutional investor

currently owns a real asset such as a

shopping mall but they need some

liquidity and do not wish to sell their

entire stake and/or other investors are

against any overall asset sale

• Solution: Investor might carve out a

minority share of their investment and

sell the right to participate in their

investment to the crowd via a

tokenized offering

• Benefit: Incoming cash for the

institution and an ability for individuals

to both own a portion of the property

and participate in its revenue-

generation and appreciation

• Problem: Pension does not have

sufficient assets to meet their full

liability to members

• Solution: Pension might invest in

an asset that individuals could

utilize such as a housing

community and offer members

“credits” via tokens to use the

asset/ live in the community to

offset owed liabilities

• Benefit: Long-term asset that

should generate income and

appreciate for pension fund and

utilization benefit for retired

pension member to offset any

benefit shortfall

• Problem: Individual owner

needs capital to expand or

improve their business but does

not want to take on additional

debt or partners

• Solution: Individual could allow

local institutions or a pool of

individuals to take on a minority

ownership in their business via a

tokenized offering

• Benefit: Incoming cash for the

individual business owner and an

incentivized pool of local owners

to support their business and

exposure to a new asset and

potential cash flow for investors

Both institutional and individual investors may find benefits through the use of real asset tokens

that could both democratize access to new types of investments and support more localization

Source: Citi Business Advisory Services

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