September 16, 2026
GEM's CIO, Matt Bank, joined Ted Seides on the Capital Allocators podcast alongside seven other CIOs to discuss how they are each integrating AI into their investment practices today. Matt explains how AI has served as a process accelerator for the team—from data aggregation to meeting preparation—and how that efficiency has further enhanced our team’s pattern recognition and access to institutional knowledge. He also makes clear why we’ve deliberately stopped short of delegating investment decision making to AI, and he shares how he hopes this technology will continue to evolve in the future.
Watch and listen to the episode below.
The firm announced the final close of its second Independent Sponsors Fund at its hard cap. New capital for the strategy totals $685 million, extending a program that has invested alongside independent sponsors for more than a decade.
CIO Matt Bank joined a group of fellow CIOs on the Capital Allocators podcast to discuss how each of them is evaluating the benefits and risks of integrating AI into their investment practices today.
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