Gary Collier believes the primary bottleneck for Man Group in deploying AI is the organizational change required to implement new capabilities quickly and safely, not a lack of compute or data.

Man Group now requires all new hires, regardless of their role, to have a high level of proficiency and understanding of AI.

For over a year and a half, Man Group has been developing an AI system with multiple agents to automate the quantitative research process, from idea formation to coding backtests and evaluating results.