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London, 11 February 2026

Man Group, the global alternative investment management firm, and Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, today announce a new partnership, which will see the two businesses work collaboratively on the design and application of AI at Man Group.

Man Group, which manages US$ 213.9bn* for its global clients, is using Anthropic’s Claude offering and working side-by-side with Anthropic engineers as it seeks to build on its technology heritage garnered through more than 35 years of experience in systematic investing and embed AI in processes across the firm. This will include processes from the investment floor through to departments including distribution and human resources. 

Man Group’s investment capabilities span public and private markets, with a mix of alternative and long-only approaches across all major asset classes. The primary focus of the partnership with Anthropic for Man Group is to harness AI for alpha generation**, aiming to swiftly unlock potential new investment insights from data with the ultimate objective of generating attractive performance and meaningful portfolio solutions for clients. 

The firm will leverage a combination of its proprietary technology platform and Claude’s ability to operate between raw datasets and investment decisions: accessing data through code execution, then summarising and synthesising insights for use by portfolio management teams globally. For example, using Claude, investment teams can analyse a significantly wider universe of securities and their associated financial risk models, ad hoc communications and textual information processed through automated reports and agentic AI. This will free time for core activities including company modelling, security selection and portfolio construction.

Beyond alpha generation, we see that Anthropic’s Claude products are expected to have a broader impact at Man Group; reducing repetitive tasks, enabling team members across the firm to focus on innovation within their own roles and business units, and cutting the time taken to develop applications and features. The new partnership will see employees obtain increased access to tools that will accelerate the pace of change.

While the investment manager has been making use of AI for some time, Anthropic’s Claude offering – and particularly Claude Skills – has solved a specific challenge in integrating AI models into Man Group’s processes: the ability to describe workflows and processes in plain English and have the models answer questions effectively. In addition, Anthropic’s Claude Code, an agentic coding tool, has significantly improved the efficiency of coding tasks for Man Group’s technologists.

Gary Collier, Chief Technology Officer of Man Group, said: 

“We’ve been using AI in different forms for over a decade now, but the introduction of LLMs has rapidly accelerated the pace of change and led to the creation of proprietary alpha idea generation tools, like AlphaGPT. We think Anthropic, with its strong enterprise focus, is the right partner to help us go faster and further because it understands the complexity of our needs and its products can speak the Man Group language. As well as providing forms of process automation, it is bringing the heart of our investment processes into the scope of innovation and productivity gains. We’re really excited about the possibilities in this space.”

Chris Ciauri, Managing Director International at Anthropic, commented:

“Man Group has a deep technology heritage built over more than three decades, and is already building serious AI capabilities in-house. This partnership is a natural next step. What makes it distinctive and especially valuable for us is how specific the applications are—from generating new investment signals to synthesising financial data into decisions that were previously too time-consuming to reach. Financial services firms operate under some of the most demanding regulatory and compliance requirements of any industry, which means the bar for trust and reliability in AI is especially high. That Man Group has chosen to deploy Claude this broadly is a real milestone for us.”   

_{*As at 30 September 2025
**Alpha generation: Defined as the ability to generate returns in excess of a benchmark}