After attending an ISM seminar on Knowledge Management with Dr. JC Spender, Eduard was inspired to apply the principles learned in class to his own industry of Asset Management, and in the Fall of 2008 published the article "Knowledge Management in Asset Management Firms", in the Association of Financial Professionals' journal, VBA. The abstract and a link to Eduard's article are found below.

Abstract: An asset manager’s business model is in essence a fiduciary model: all efforts are focused on wealth creation for its clients. Although the output can be measured in physical monetary units, the asset management process itself is highly dependent on data, information and knowledge. Better still, most asset managers claim to exert specific knowledge as a result of which clients will benefit in terms of better performance. This paper raises the question what this actually means. If asset managers have specific knowledge, what does it consists of? And how can this knowledge be transferred into superior results? It will be argued that it is extremely difficult to pinpoint what this specific knowledge really is, and that is often tacit in nature. But as long as the expectations are kept alive, it seems not too many questions are asked.

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