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Vanguard Embraces AI to Transform Client Experience and Streamline Operations

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The Business Honor: Vanguard Embraces AI Innovation

Business Honor
25 December, 2025

The investment giant aims to enhance financial guidance through innovative AI tools for personalized, accessible client interactions.

The total authority of Vanguard, which manages assets exceeding $12 trillion, is to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to close the gap between Vanguard's tremendous number of clients and its modest number of employees (20,000). Nitin Tandon, Vanguard's Global Chief Information Officer (CIO), pointed out the extreme difficulty of providing personal financial advice for 50 million clients, adding, “You can't find that many advisors in this country to give advice to those 50 million clients”. Vanguard aims to overcome this by operationalizing many AI initiatives to streamline operations and enhance client service personalization on an unprecedented scale.

In recent weeks, Vanguard has released an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that can be utilized internally by all staff members, giving nearly 2,000 of Vanguard's employees’ access to test the various functions of this tool, including the ability to answer questions from customers regarding their account balances and asset performance. Tandon believes the technology is developed enough to perform these functions, but warned that careful supervision is necessary to avoid spreading incorrect information. Vanguard is executing the appropriate safeguards to ensure this technology does not unintentionally give customers financial advice. Vanguard has added generative AI technology to their internal tools and has acquired generative AI software for all employees who are now able, and encouraged, to use it.

In January 2023, Vanguard unveiled an innovative generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to assist financial advisors in developing personalized financial summaries for clients. The AI functionality can help develop more personalized client reports that are specific to the level of financial literacy and understanding of the client. This innovation further enhances the opportunities available to advisors to provide personalized services to each client. By leveraging AI within its product offerings, Vanguard expects that through ongoing innovation in this area, its use of AI will create significant efficiencies within its operations, and, in turn, create further personalized client experiences within the investment management ecosystem.