Research Methodology
The survey questioned 730 executives worldwide. The respondents were based primarily in North America (29%), Asia-Pacific (29%), and Western Europe (26%), with the rest from the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. While the largest number of respondents came from the US (22%), 7% came from the UK and Canada, 5% from India, and 4% from each of the following countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, South Korea, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. In total, investors and executives from 73 countries responded to the survey.
In terms of seniority, 52% were at the “C-suite” level, 23% at the director level and 26% at the managerial level. With respect to the size of the organisation, 50% were from companies with revenue of more than $500m per year, and 50% were from companies reporting less than $500m in annual revenue. The overwhelming majority (73%) of respondents came from the financial industry, with 11% from retail banking, 10% from asset management, and 9% from diversified banking institutions. Corporate banking, private equity/venture capital, financial services consulting and non-life insurance each represent 8% of respondents. A lesser number of responses were spread across other sub-sectors—such as wealth management, life insurance, real estate/leasing, broker-dealer and hedge funds.
