Schroders Capital, Schroders' specialist private markets business with $94 billion of assets under management, today unveils its Generative AI Investment Analyst (GAiiA) platform.
This innovation is designed to speed up the analysis of large volumes of data, enabling our private equity investment specialists to focus on delivering value through strategic investment activity to further support our clients’ investment needs.
It follows comprehensive in-house testing and further builds on the technology evolution across the Schroders Group, which has been actively deploying generative AI across the business for a substantial period.
Schroders Capital’s proprietary and internal-only platform harnesses the technical expertise of its data science specialists alongside the deep investment knowledge of its private equity team. It forms a core component of our leading private markets investment intellectual property.
Our private equity specialists can now automatically screen extensive volumes of data, accelerate due diligence processes and generate a significant portion of draft investment summaries in significantly less time. By supporting with the creation of draft investment memos, the platform has the potential to become a key part of the investment process.
By handling the heavy lifting of data analysis, GAiiA, which always has continual and extensive human oversight and control, can enable Schroders Capital’s investment professionals to analyse even more investments, allowing them to reallocate more of their time on adding value through direct interactions and strategic decisions with target and existing investments.
GAiiA is currently being used by Schroders Capital’s private equity team for private equity direct/co-investments. It is continually being optimised with plans to expand its use to private equity primaries and secondaries in the future and to other private market asset classes within Schroders Capital where appropriate.
Nils Rode, Chief Investment Officer at Schroders Capital, said:
"This proprietary platform will elevate our investment analysis to a new level, enabling our team to make faster and even more informed investment decisions and to focus on higher-value activities. The implementation of GAiiA showcases our commitment to innovation and leveraging technology to deliver superior client outcomes."
Across the business, Schroders has made its internal-only AI assistant, Genie, available to all employees globally. Leveraging the latest GPT[1] models, Genie is now used by over 1,000 colleagues across the firm each day. More broadly, Schroders has already identified and is working on a substantial number of potential AI use-cases across the business, such as translations, as well as helping our specialists better understand clients’ behaviours and investment patterns.
Graham Taylor, Head of Private Assets Data Insights at Schroders Capital, said:
“Schroders envisions a future where AI tools become an integral part of the investment process. The implementation of GAiiA is a significant step towards this vision. We are committed to driving innovation and embracing technology to deliver exceptional value to our clients across asset classes.”
[1] Generative pre-trained transformer, a type of artificial intelligence language model
For further information, please contact:
Hilary Espinosa, Penta Asia | +65 9423 5851 | |
Clarence Chen, Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Ltd. | +65 6800 7397 |
Schroders Capital
Schroders Capital provides investors with access to a broad range of private market investment opportunities, portfolio building blocks and customised private market strategies. Its team focuses on delivering best-in-class, risk-adjusted returns and executing investments through a combination of direct investment capabilities and broader solutions in all private market asset classes, through comingled funds and customised private market mandates.
The team aims to achieve sustainable returns through a rigorous approach and in alignment with a culture characterised by performance, collaboration and integrity.
With $93.7 billion (£73.5 billion; €84.8 billion)* assets under management, Schroders Capital offers a diversified range of investment strategies, including real estate, private equity, secondaries, venture capital, infrastructure, securitised products and asset-based finance, private debt, insurance-linked securities and BlueOrchard (Impact Specialists).
*Assets under management as at 31 December 2023 (including non-fee earning dry powder and in-house cross holdings)
Schroders plc
Schroders is a global investment management firm with £750.6 billion (€866.2 billion; $956.9 billion) assets under management, as at 31 December 2023. Schroders continues to deliver strong financial results in ever challenging market conditions, with a market capitalisation of circa £7 billion and over 6,400 employees across 38 locations. Established in 1804, the founding family remains a core shareholder, holding approximately 44% of Schroders’ shares.
Schroders has benefited from a diverse business model by geography, asset class and client type. It offers innovative products and solutions across four core growing business areas; asset management, solutions, Schroders Capital (private markets) and wealth management. Clients include insurance companies, pension schemes, sovereign wealth funds, high net worth individuals and foundations. Schroders also manages assets for end clients as part of its relationships with distributors, financial advisers and online platforms.
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