Asset managers are extending AI agent into risk management, with almost three-quarters (73%) expecting the pace of AI integration into risk management to accelerate in the next three years, according to Clearwater Analytics’ GenAI and the Data Divide study.
Even in the one function where caution runs highest, most firms still expect AI’s role to keep growing.
“Nearly every firm surveyed (93%) already treats AI agent integration as important or critical to their operations, and 95% say it’s important to meeting their investment management goals over the next three years,” says Souvik Das, CTO at Clearwater Analytics. “Risk management is where you’d expect that consensus to be hardest to find. That so many firms still expect AI’s role there to grow reveals intentional direction by firms who’ve actually tested it and trust what they’re seeing.”
Key takeaways:
· More than four in five managers expect AI spending to increase by at least 50% over the next 12 months, with 62% anticipating rises of between 50% and 99%, and a further 22% expecting increases of between 100-299%. Just under 5% expect spending to stay flat or decrease.
· These findings describe an industry moving AI into the center of its competitive proposition.
· 79% of firms call their data complete, but only 56% call it accurate, and that gap is what decides whether a risk signal can be trusted.
