Gen AI in Asset Management: Chat with CTO & COO of Aiera - Key Takeaways & Replay

Bernstein's Asia Quantitative Strategy team published key takeaways from the second session of Season 2 of its "Gen AI in Asset Management" Innovator Series, hosting Bryan Healey (CTO & Co-Founder) and Gavin Skinner (COO) of Aiera. Aiera is the first sell-side approved, AI-enabled platform for research distribution and consumption, backed by a consortium of 10 major global research providers (plus Third Bridge for expert network) and advised by 13 large buy-side firms. Its objective is to enable AI-driven access to proprietary broker research while preserving intellectual property rights, compliance requirements, entitlement controls and research-provider economics. Key differentiators include: exclusive permission from consortium brokers to fine-tune AI models on historical research; enrichment services such as custom embedding models, proprietary ontology and grammar templates; platform-agnostic distribution via MCP and API; a single legal contract for buy-side content access;