Odd Lots · Thursday, July 9, 2026
Gary Collier, CTO of Man Group, stated that AI is impacting and augmenting virtually every role within the firm, from trading and quant research to discretionary investing. He noted that even traditional discretionary analysts now widely use AI-focused tools on their screens, indicating a pervasive shift across the organization.
“I think if you were to walk across the floor, you would say different windows, different tools in use now, regardless of role, whether it be trading, quant research, or discretionary investing. And so chatting to a couple of discretionary analysts last week and they're commenting to me on how everywhere you look across the discretionary floor, everybody has got an AI focused like window on their screen, and so it's affecting, improving, like augmenting pretty much every role we have in the firm, of course, in different ways depending on what the role is, but there's no role that's unaffected by AI.”