The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 11-3031.03 · Job Zone 5

AI exposure: Investment Fund Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate investment strategy or operations for a large pool of liquid assets supplied by institutional investors or individual investors.

Reading this score

computed

43.9% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Investment Fund Managers at the 79th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.9 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 20 tasks it averages 2.22 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.

The most exposed thing this job does is Identify group or individual target investors for a specific fund, at 80.0%. The least is Select specific investments or investment mixes for purchase by an investment fund, at 20.0%. A gap of 60.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within management occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 56 roles in the group is 41.2%, and only 14 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.

What would move this score. Of 20 tasks, 13 are currently banded exposed, 7 assisted and 0 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take cheaper ways to verify output, since the cost of checking is currently doing more to hold this work in place than the cost of producing it. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

20 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Identify group or individual target investors for a specific fund.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.54exposed
Perform or evaluate research, such as detailed company or industry analyses, to inform financial forecasting, decision making, or valuation.73.3%26.7%0.0%4.38exposed
Monitor regulatory or tax law changes to ensure fund compliance or to capitalize on development opportunities.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.72exposed
Meet with investors to determine investment goals or to discuss investment strategies.66.7%33.3%0.0%4.22exposed
Attend investment briefings or consult financial media to stay abreast of relevant investment markets.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.05exposed
Monitor financial or operational performance of individual investments to ensure portfolios meet risk goals.58.3%29.2%12.5%4.56exposed
Evaluate the potential of new product developments or market opportunities, according to factors such as business plans, technologies, or market potential.55.0%20.0%25.0%3.79exposed
Develop or direct development of offering documents or marketing materials.52.5%22.5%25.0%3.57exposed
Prepare for and respond to regulatory inquiries.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.99exposed
Present investment information, such as product risks, fees, or fund performance statistics.45.0%30.0%25.0%4.23exposed
Verify regulatory compliance of transaction reporting.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.70exposed
Review offering documents or marketing materials to ensure regulatory compliance.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.58exposed
Analyze acquisitions to ensure conformance with strategic goals or regulatory requirements.35.0%40.0%25.0%3.79assisted
Develop, implement, or monitor security valuation policies.25.6%24.4%50.0%4.22exposed
Select or direct the execution of trades.23.3%26.7%50.0%4.48assisted
Develop or implement fund investment policies or strategies.23.3%26.7%50.0%4.47assisted
Direct activities of accounting or operations departments.21.7%28.3%50.0%3.47assisted
Hire or evaluate staff.20.8%41.7%37.5%3.76assisted
Manage investment funds to maximize return on client investments.20.0%30.0%50.0%4.81assisted
Select specific investments or investment mixes for purchase by an investment fund.20.0%30.0%50.0%4.61assisted

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability2.900-4
Embodiment0.110-3
Presence0.870-3
Accountability1.320-3
Context2.220-3
Verification cost1.660-3

What this means in practice

Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.