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Jack Barrat

Aug 12, 2026

13:39
Yeah.
13:39
So although AI is the vast majority of the work streams we've got on continuous improvement right now, had we been doing this podcast three years ago, there would've been another huge number of data and work streams that we're doing to try and get better at what we do.
13:51
The incrementalism of improvement is something that I think is built into the DNA of what we do.
13:57
At the moment, the work streams around AI, and again, we are moving fast and breaking things at the moment, so I don't know which of these are gonna work.
14:04
But the three main aspects of what we're working on is how we can use our historical data write-ups and view of the world to construct a system that will help us make better lessons out of the historical trading decisions that we've got.
14:22
So almost help improve our behavioral inadequacies by looking and analyzing what we've done in the past, what we're saying right now, and how we can be better in doing that.
14:31
The second piece in terms of work streams that we're looking at is how we can build semi-agentic using a lot of bots to, to, to build the internal systems at Man Group to tailor themselves to how we think about the world as fund managers.

11 MINS LATER

25:26
So what is your definition of risk?
18:49
so so how are you going to be able to work smarter in the future How do you use it to your advantage?
18:58
That's such a good question.
18:59
It's one of the two questions I think people don't ask fund managers enough, which is how are you getting better at what you do? At the moment, we've always got, I think, you know, the mindset of continuous improvement is something that's built into the culture of the team and we work really hard on.
19:13
So although AI is the vast majority of the work streams we've got on continuous improvement right now, had we been doing this podcast three years ago, there would have been another huge number of data and work streams that we're doing to try and get better at what we do.
19:25
The incrementalism, of improvement is something that i think is built into the dna of what we do at the moment the work streams around ai and again we are moving fast and breaking things at the moment so i don't know which of these are going to work but the three main aspects of what we're working on is how we can use our historical data write-ups and view of the world to construct a system that will help us make better lessons out of the historical trading decisions that we've got.
19:55
So almost help improve our behavioural inadequacies by looking and analysing what we've done in the past, what we're saying right now, and how we can be better in doing that.
20:05
The second piece in terms of work streams that we're looking at is how we can build semi-agentic using a lot of bots to build the internal systems at Man Group to tailor themselves to how we think about the world as fund managers, how our process works specifically, and therefore how we can use the internal system to basically help us on a day-to-day basis in our analysis of companies.

32 MINS LATER

52:25
And are there any people or any books you've read that have been instrumental in helping you formulate your strategy and your philosophy for running the UK Income Fund?

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