How Institutions Think About Their Data

The 2025 State Street Data Study found that having a holistic data strategy benefits investors, but while the opportunities are significant, challenges from integrating new data sources and keeping up with innovations, are daunting.  

State Street surveyed asset managers, asset owners, wealth managers and insurers from around the world in late 2024 and early 2025 about their holistic data strategies, finding that assets owners are more likely than the other groups to have a data use and management strategy in place.

Among those that do not yet have one, most responded that they expect to have one within two years.

The industry expects investment in data and technology will increase investment performance, revenue and costs savings. 

A Holistic Approach to Data Use and Management

Most institutional investors are in the implementation stage.

AM
AO
Insurer
Wealth
Currently in place
32%
39%
11%
21%
Implementing (late stages)
33%
22%
47%
35%
Implementing (early stages)
16%
17%
22%
33%
Planning
16%
22%
16%
12%
Not planning, but intended to do so
0%
0%
4%
0%
No intensions to do so
3%
0%
0%
0%
Source: State Street - Capturing the data opportunity in an era of uncertainty, June 2025

Back Office Data Investment Priorities

AM
AO
Insurer
Wealth
Improving internal operations and vendor relationships
33%
31%
36%
31%
Generating competitor intelligence and strategic trends
35%
24%
31%
35%
Generating financial disclosures and regulatory fillings
33%
33%
27%
30%
Generating risk management insights
34%
25%
33%
24%
Delivering private fund/asset information to investors
26%
27%
25%
32%
Delivering data and reporting to consumers
33%
26%
21%
26%
Governing outsourced operations to meet regulatory requirements
22%
25%
29%
30%
Source: State Street - Capturing the data opportunity in an era of uncertainty, June 2025

Where Data Use Has the Biggest Economic Impact (by investor type)

Data’s impact on an organization’s investment returns.

Global
AM
AO
Insurer
Wealth
Capital markets and security-level research
58%
52%
57%
59%
67%
Strategic asset allocation
57%
57%
44%
65%
61%
Selecting products/strategies*
51%
0%
53%
49%
0%
Defining investment objectives
50%
59%
34%
51%
55%
Creating or adjusting products/selecting products/strategies
40%
46%
34%
42%
35%
Note: *Selecting products/strategies: Only for asset owners and insurers without in-house investment functions

Source: State Street - Capturing the data opportunity in an era of uncertainty, June 2025

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