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Agentic CRM for Asset Management


From system of record to system of action—an AI-driven operating model for distribution and client service

Asset management firms operate across institutional and intermediary channels, each with complex coverage models, consultant relationships, and high-stakes sales cycles. Institutional and client service teams are expected to respond faster to RFPs, due diligence requests, client inquiries, and internal reporting—without adding headcount or administrative burden. In practice, much of this work still happens outside the CRM.

Sales, institutional coverage, intermediary, and client service teams live in Outlook, Teams, and Excel—not in institutionally mandated corporate management tools like CRM. Critical interactions, meeting notes, and follow-ups are captured inconsistently, if at all. Opportunity data, coverage activity, and relationship intelligence are fragmented across inboxes, spreadsheets, shared drives, and point solutions.

In indirect distribution models, sales professionals influence outcomes that may materialize months later—making visibility into activity, feedback, and follow-through essential. Without that visibility, firms struggle to tie influence to results.

Institutional teams struggle with mandate coverage, consultant relationships, complex buying groups, and long, high-stakes sales cycles, while intermediary and distribution teams struggle with scale: channel coverage, platform relationships, advisor engagement, and activity tracking across large territories and books of business.

Institutional complexity. Intermediary scale. One coordinated operating model.

Institutional teams struggle with mandate coverage, consultant relationships, complex buying groups, and long, high-stakes sales cycles, while intermediary and distribution teams struggle with scale: channel coverage, platform relationships, advisor engagement, and activity tracking across large territories and books of business.

In both cases, the problem isn’t effort. It’s that too much critical work happens outside the system that’s supposed to coordinate it.

Agentic CRM: Leveraging AI to power asset management

Agentic AI uses AI agents to assist and orchestrate work on a user’s behalf—capturing information, initiating workflows, and suggesting next steps while keeping people in control and ensuring outcomes are recorded in governed systems of record.

Agentic CRM brings AI agents and Microsoft Copilot into the tools asset management teams already use—especially Outlook and Teams—while connecting to a governed CRM and data estate. This approach extends your existing system of record rather than requiring rip-and-replace.

From passive system of record to active system of action

Instead of asking sales and client teams to “do more in CRM,” AI agents work where they already are—capturing activities, coordinating follow-ups, assisting with RFPs and due diligence, surfacing risks and gaps, and writing outcomes back to CRM with full traceability.

Your CRM evolves from a passive system of record into an active system of action—improving productivity, data quality, institutional memory, visibility into coverage and pipeline health, and alignment with compliance and audit expectations.

Built for both institutional and intermediary models

For Institutional teams

  • Coordinate complex coverage models across sales, product, client service, and leadership
  • Track multi-threaded relationships and buying groups
  • Support long-cycle pursuits and mandate defense
  • Improve consistency and quality in RFP and due diligence responses
  • Preserve institutional knowledge as teams and territories change

For intermediary and distribution teams

  • Scale coverage across platforms, channels, and advisor networks
  • Reduce manual activity logging and CRM administration
  • Improve visibility into true engagement, momentum, and white space
  • Ensure follow-ups, campaigns, and commitments don’t fall through the cracks
  • Focus time on selling and relationship-building instead of reporting
Benefits of Agentic CRM

Benefits of Agentic CRM for Asset Management

Agentic CRM changes how asset managers operate across distribution and client service:

How Agentic CRM works

Behind the scenes, Agentic CRM brings together distribution teams, AI agents, and CRM within a straightforward, governed architecture designed around the tools people already rely on:

Work surfaces: Teams, Outlook, mobile, and web—the places where day-to-day work actually happens

AI layer: Copilot and purpose-built AI agents that support, summarize, and coordinate actions across CRM and business workflows

Data and control layer: Dynamics 365 and a curated data foundation with role-based access, logging, and built-in review and approval points

Built on a trusted platform, but designed to break down silos

Agentic CRM for Asset Management is powered by Microsoft technologies—including Dynamics 365, Copilot, and Power Platform—but is designed to integrate with your existing CRM or system of record. Whether your environment is legacy, modern, or highly customized, AI agents can be deployed on top of it.

Rather than forcing consolidation into a single platform, Agentic CRM breaks down silos across systems—transforming legacy solutions into coordinated systems of action.

Aligned with Microsoft’s interaction layer, Agentic CRM connects signals across Outlook, Teams, meetings, documents, and identity—providing deeper context and enabling more intelligent orchestration. Through secure connectors and governed workflows, AI agents operate across work surfaces while writing back to your system of record with full traceability and role-based controls.

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This offer is available for a limited time. Reserve your seat today and take the first step toward unlocking real AI value.

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