Jun 1, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
In Part 1 of this double episode with Deloitte, we speak to Dimitri Tsopanakos about how AI is transforming investment management from front to back. Hear what separates successful AI deployments from…
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Dimitri TsopanakosGuestJames KingHostSo where do you see the divergence perhaps between how sort of the players in the market are thinking about AI and, and those end investors are? Are there any sort of misalignments there perhaps?
And if I can take a step back to answer your question, to, to look at, you know, what the market is really looking like for, for our sector, right? So if you go back to two, three years, um, ago, the size of the AI market was about $150 billion in dollars.
Two years later, 2025, it was just shy of a trillion, right? So we're talking about a huge, huge, huge jump.
Now, you're looking at a market that's coming into 2026, which is over 2 trillion, and it's estimated to be over 5 trillion in the next few years.
This is a massive jump, and the reason I mention this is if you look at the, the size of this market, about 20% is usually attributed to financial services.
So you're looking at a very, very, very big market, a market that's over $250, $300 billion.
And then you attribute that into our sector, which is kind of investment management, wealth, the buy side.
This market has always been there, and I keep telling people that it's not something new.
It may be new within financial services over the last five, six years, but it's not new in the market.
And the most experienced participant is our clients because our clients have been using AI all these years.
So to answer your question, there's a very different view, and I think market participants need to appreciate more the experience their clients, their customers have and learn from that.
So where do you see the divergence perhaps between how sort of the players in the market are thinking about AI and, and those end investors are? Are there any sort of misalignments there perhaps?
And if I can take a step back to answer your question, to, to look at, you know, what the market is really looking like for, for our sector, right? So if you go back to two, three years, um, ago, the size of the AI market was about $150 billion in dollars.
Two years later, 2025, it was just shy of a trillion, right? So we're talking about a huge, huge, huge jump.
Now, you're looking at a market that's coming into 2026, which is over 2 trillion, and it's estimated to be over 5 trillion in the next few years.
This is a massive jump, and the reason I mention this is if you look at the, the size of this market, about 20% is usually attributed to financial services.
So you're looking at a very, very, very big market, a market that's over $250, $300 billion.
And then you attribute that into our sector, which is kind of investment management, wealth, the buy side.
This market has always been there, and I keep telling people that it's not something new.
It may be new within financial services over the last five, six years, but it's not new in the market.
And the most experienced participant is our clients because our clients have been using AI all these years.
So to answer your question, there's a very different view, and I think market participants need to appreciate more the experience their clients, their customers have and learn from that.
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