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For years, Causeway’s investment teams have used FactSet’s Portfolio Analysis suite to view daily exposures, characteristics, performance, attribution, and risk analytics for their portfolios and benchmarks. That relationship deepened in 2023 when the firm expanded into Portfolio Insights (Vault) to scale analytics access across portfolio managers, analysts, traders, and client service teams.

In AI-enabled conversational portfolio construction, natural language is particularly useful while a workflow is being discovered. A user can describe an investment mandate, clarify assumptions, run an optimization, inspect the results, and refine the request until the process is settled. But once the workflow has stabilized, repeating the same conversation every time is no longer the most efficient way to use it.

Portfolio optimization problems do not always have a solution. For a complex mandate, diagnosing infeasibility can become a substantial part of the portfolio construction workflow. In that circumstance, the combination of specialized optimizer diagnostics and generative AI can materially change the user experience.