Janus Henderson Investors, the London- and Denver-based active asset manager overseeing approximately $480 billion in client assets has partnered with Anthropic to build a suite of AI-native tools.
The asset manager is also teaming up with Percepta, a transformation company backed by General Catalyst to build a suite of AI-native tools designed to overhaul how its investment and client-service teams operate.
The move puts Anthropic's Claude model at the center of two purpose-built platforms: PRISM, a global client intelligence and engagement tool for the firm's distribution teams, and LIBROS, a research management system for its investment professionals. Both are being constructed with Janus Henderson's own proprietary data at their core.
PRISM is built to help client-facing teams identify the right outreach priorities, draw on internal and third-party holdings data, and produce personalized client communications across regions.
Meanwhile, LIBROS is intended to help analysts and portfolio managers surface relevant signals faster by synthesizing internal research, external data, and public market information, giving investment professionals more time to focus on judgment calls rather than information gathering.
"We believe AI Transformation will fundamentally change the way asset managers serve their clients when it is embedded at the core of the business," said Ali Dibadj, chief executive officer of Janus Henderson. "
Beyond the two flagship tools, Janus Henderson said it is rolling out Claude broadly across the firm – Claude Code for its engineering teams and Cowork, Anthropic's desktop tool for non-developers, across investment, distribution, and corporate functions.
In December, the firm agreed to a $7.4 billion take-private buyout led by Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management and General Catalyst – the same backer now behind Percepta. Under that deal, shareholders are to receive $49 a share, an 18 percent premium to the firm's unaffected closing price in late October. Dibadj is expected to remain as CEO after the firm goes private, and Janus Henderson plans to maintain its primary offices in London and Denver.
Shortly afterward in January, Janus Henderson agreed to acquire Richard Bernstein Advisors, a New York-based macro, multi-asset manager overseeing approximately $20 billion in client assets. The acquisition is set to place Janus Henderson among the top 10 model portfolio providers in North America, extending its reach with wirehouses and RIAs.
The firm's push into AI-native infrastructure comes against the backdrop of its own research showing that advisor clients remain deeply cautious about the technology's role in their financial lives. A Janus Henderson survey of 1,000 U.S. investors with at least $250,000 in investable assets found that three in four respondents flagged concerns about biased or conflicted recommendations from AI, and 79 percent said they would be upset if they discovered their advisor had used AI without disclosing it.
The same survey found that identical market forecasts carried more weight when attributed to a human strategist than to an AI. A prediction of a 20% gain for the S&P 500 over the next 12 months shifted investor expectations by an average of nearly 6 percentage points when framed as coming from a human, versus roughly 3 points when the same forecast was attributed to an AI.
Peter Nolan, head of Asset & Wealth Management at Anthropic, said asset management is a "knowledge-intensive industry where reliable AI can help teams work faster and serve clients better," adding that Janus Henderson is embedding Claude directly into the hands of the teams managing both investments and client relationships.
Hirsh Jain, Chief Executive Officer of Percepta, said the collaboration is focused on "strengthening research and market intelligence and elevating client engagement," describing the work as a fundamental rethinking of how work gets done inside a large asset management organization.
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