What do you do when the regulator comes knocking? Who is the newest addition to the C-suite? What are some of the largest tech-focused managers really using generative AI for? These are just some of the questions answered in this edition of the AIMA Journal.

This edition delivers specialist insights on the latest AI and blockchain technology advancements from genuine market leaders, offering the kind of realistic and hype-free analysis that’s hard to come in many other venues. Multiple writers identify a tension between the potential of gen AI to relieve operational frictions and the need to develop greater trust that these tools are as intelligent and reliable as they seem at first glance. While the rest of the world frets about chips and global semiconductor supply chains, our contributors suggest that the greater barrier to adoption by asset managers may be much closer to home. 

Sticking with the theme of innovation enabled by technology, and in keeping with the Innovation Day we hosted in London in early September, this edition presents the argument that the modern demand for marketing specialists has given rise to a new role in a firm’s leadership: the Fractional Chief Marketing Officer (FCMO). Curious readers should delve further into this journal to learn more about this curious new edition to the C-suite.

 Elsewhere, readers are presented with welcome news on the increasing number of hedge fund launches and valuable updates on the latest regulatory developments in the US and the EU, all of which come together to create another impactful edition of the AIMA Journal.

My thanks go to the contributors for making this journal an engaging resource each quarter.