Janus Henderson builds AI for investment teams

Janus Henderson is building an artificial intelligence (AI) research management tool LIBROS for its investment teams in collaboration with Percepta, an enterprise AI transformation company.

Powered by Claude, the tool will help the investment team's synthesis the firm's internal research alongside external research and public market data.

The asset manager said this will help analysts and portfolio managers surface relevant signals faster and spend more of their time on judgment and investment decisions.

It is also developing another tool PRISM, which is a global engagement platform for Janus Henderson's distribution teams.

PRISM will help client-facing teams prioritise the right outreach, draw on internal and third-party data to understand what clients hold and need, and prepare personalised client communications.

Janus Henderson said this will bring a single, consistent tool to sales and marketing teams across regions.

It will also deploy Claude broadly across the firm, with Claude Code for its engineering teams and Cowork for employees across investment, distribution, and corporate functions, bringing AI further into everyday work.

Janus Henderson chief executive Ali Dibadj said: "We believe AI transformation will fundamentally change the way asset managers serve their clients when it is embedded at the core of the business."

"This collaboration with Anthropic and Percepta builds on Janus Henderson's partnership with Trian and General Catalyst, adds to our innovative leadership in AI and tokenisation, and supports our ambition to be the most technologically sophisticated asset manager in the world," Dibadj said.

Janus Henderson said connecting Claude to Janus Henderson's proprietary research, client, and market data addresses a major problem that has slowed AI adoption across asset management.

"Generic tools rarely fit how an active manager researches markets, manages portfolios, and serves clients. The value comes from connecting frontier AI to a firm's own data and rebuilding core workflows around it, which generally takes engineering built into the business, not software bought off a shelf," Janus Henderson said.

Anthropic head of asset and wealth management Peter Nolan noted asset management is a knowledge-intensive industry where reliable AI can help teams work faster and serve clients better.

"Janus Henderson is putting Claude directly into the hands of the teams managing investments and client relationships: from purpose-built tools like PRISM and LIBROS to Claude Code and Cowork across the firm," Nolan said.