AI emerges as a top strategic priority for asset owners
WTW's Thinking Ahead Institute and the MSCI Institute published the Global Asset Owner Technology Peer Study 2026, finding AI is now the top strategic priority for global asset owners, cited by 67% of participants. The study draws on 20 global asset owners overseeing more than US$5 trillion in combined assets. Participants expect technology's contribution to investment outcomes to rise from roughly 17% today to 30% over the next three to five years. The research highlights gaps in governance and data readiness: only 25% of asset owners have AI as a standing board or committee agenda item, and three-quarters cite data quality and standardization as the leading constraint on adoption.
Key figures
- Participants
- 20
- Data barrier pct
- 75%
- Ai top priority pct
- 67%
- Combined assets usd
- $5 trillion
- Occasional review pct
- 60%
- Liquidity priority pct
- 33%
- Tech contribution today
- 17%
- Ai board agenda item pct
- 25%
- Tech contribution expected
- 30%
- Private markets priority pct
- 28%
- Higher inflation priority pct
- 44%
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