Sandy Kaul

Formal First Name

Sandy

Link

Location

Sandy Kaul is the Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Assets and Industry Advisory Services at Franklin Templeton Investments, a global investment management organization. She provides advisory consulting for the firm and thought leadership as part of the Franklin Templeton Institute. She also delivers actionable intelligence and insights on the future of the investment and wealth management industry for the firm and its clients. Sandy has an extensive background in driving market leading research, thought leadership and predictive models centered on the evolution of the investment and wealth management industry. Prior to Franklin Templeton, she served as Managing Director and Global Head of Business Advisory Services at Citigroup, where she launched and built out the Citi's Business Advisory Services practice, a market leading provider of industry thought leadership spanning Citi's Markets and Global Wealth organizations.

Entity Types

	Financial Services
	Management Consulting

Strategies

Terms

Professional Experience

Academic History

Sandy delivers strategic insights to inform the firm's decision-making on partnerships and investments, including within the firm's growing digital asset business.
Her work focuses on how disruptive technologies and innovation are reshaping the trajectory of asset and wealth management.
She combines her unique blend of sell-side, buy-side and consulting insights to drive her research and thought leadership around what constitutes best practices and where innovation is occurring.

Under her leadership, the Business Advisory Services group created market-leading primary research and thought leadership on the evolution of the hedge fund and alternatives investment industry.
She addressed key industry trends such as the integration of both active and passive investing techniques.
She was involved in the emergence of beta strategies and solutions, utilization of factor analysis, rise of ESG, importance of people alpha, and embrace of digital assets and tokenization.

EARLY CAREER

Sandy began her career at Lehman Brothers, where she built economic models for commodities like cocoa, coffee and sugar.
She held positions with Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Commodities Corporations, managing portfolios focused on soft Commodities.
She then consulted and led the strategy practice within the financial services division of Scient, a capital markets niche management consulting firm.
She was a Program Manager at JP Morgan, where she led a major change initiative covering both sell-side and buy-side portfolio management.

RECOGNITIONS

MEDIA & APPEARANCES

Sandy has been a frequent speaker at industry events and a widely published author.
She has been featured or quoted in Bloomberg, Forbes, Financial Times, BusinessWire, Yahoo! Finance, and more.
She has also appeared in CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and Real Vision.

People