20 - 22 October, 2025
CNIT Forest, Paris
To gain deeper insights into the current investment challenges and opportunities, we conducted a survey of 100 senior industry leaders, including Directors of Operations/Investment Operations, Chief Operating Officers and CTO/Head/SVP/Director of Technology. In this paper, we explore the key issues shaping the future of investment operations. This report presents the anonymised findings of our research, along with expert commentary from Gresham. Don’t miss out — register your interest today to receive the full report as soon as it’s available.
Whether or not you attended InvestOps USA 2025, this report includes highlights from our sessions, information on the key topics and exclusive data collected through our on-site polling. Here, we explore the critical areas shaping the future of investment operations. These include building next-generation operating models to streamline workflows and ensure compliance, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to transform front-to-back cross-asset operations, and developing advanced data management and analytics infrastructures.
InvestOps Insights surveyed 200 Directors of Investment Operations and similar across APAC, EMEA, and North America, to find out about the challenges they are facing. The report itself is split in six, looking at respondents’ views on strategic priorities for 2025, the impact of data, the resilience of operating models, the front office, the focus on core business and the potential of AI in investment management.
Navigating Investment Operations in 2023 and Beyond: How the Buy Side is Responding to Data, Reconciliation and Technology Challenges. In Q1 of 2023, WBR Insights, in association with Gresham Technologies (Gresham) surveyed 200 heads of investment operations and similar roles at buy-side firms across APAC, UK, Europe and North America to gain a greater understanding of the operations challenges firms are facing.