AuM Archives - Victor Roodhorst

AI Hiring in Asset Management: Who Is Actually Doing It?

October 13, 2026 by Victor Roodhorst

AI hiring study cover: US-headquartered asset managers put 6.6% of open roles into AI and data work, against 4.4% at European-headquartered firms.

I read 2,864 open roles at 25 asset managers. Size barely predicts AI hiring, US firms hire twice the share of Europeans, and 7 firms have no AI role open.

Asset Manager Website Localisation: Do Big Asset Managers Speak Your Language?

October 13, 2026October 12, 2026 by Victor Roodhorst

AuM vs reach study cover: asset managers with 500 billion euros or more serve 35% of their declared European markets in English only, against 5% under 50 billion.

I crawled the websites of 135 asset managers. The bigger the firm, the more European countries its website claims, and the more of them it serves only in English: 35% of markets for firms with €500bn or more, 5% under €50bn.