Investment research spend flatlines despite AI advancements
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Substantive Research survey reveals investment research spending remains flat despite growing budgets required for AI-driven analytics.
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- Inclusion basis
- Enterprise AI
- Publisher and source type
- Finextra AI · INDUSTRY NEWS
- Published by source
- 9 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 10 Oct 2026, 09:01 UK
- Original headline
- Investment research spend flatlines despite AI advancements ↗
Stored source excerpt
Substantive Research, the research and market data discovery and pricing analytics provider, today publishes the findings of its latest survey into investment research spending and…
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Institutional assessment
So what
Asset managers are attempting to fund new AI research tools within flat overall research budgets, squeezing traditional sell-side providers.
Do what
Review investment research market data spend with the team responsible for portfolio management analytics.