Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator)
AI displacement risk
27%
Range 22.04–31.28%
Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) has 88% AI task overlap but 40% human bottleneck protection — at the 74th percentile across 562 occupations. High exposure meets organizational friction, creating offsetting forces.
Professionals·SGD 12,060/mo (7,700–19,500)·~6.2K workers in SG·Updated 2026-06-11
Structural pressure, not a prediction of job loss. Displacement tends to arrive through slower hiring, wage compression and role redesign before layoffs.
Why This Score
88% of tasks overlap with current AI
40% human advantage from judgment & presence
65% demand buffer from the local labour market
AI usage 4pp above theoretical exposure
On the Shortage Occupation List & Jobs in Demand list — government recognises hiring need
These factors interact with each other — the final score is not a simple sum of these bars.
How much AI overlaps with this job's tasks, offset by human advantages and local demand. Score stability: watch. How this works
Tasks AI can handle
With 88% AI task overlap (based on Felten AIOE, Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou GPT exposure, and ILO occupational exposure), the Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) tasks most exposed include: financial modeling, data extraction from filings, ratio analysis, report generation, transaction categorization, and regulatory document summarization.
- • Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
- • Manage investment funds to maximize return on client investments.
- • Select or direct the execution of trades.
O*NET tasks for this occupation with the most observed AI usage (Anthropic task data).
What AI can't do here
At 40% human bottleneck protection, the tasks that remain hardest to automate for Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) include: judgment on risk vs. return, client advisory relationships, regulatory interpretation in edge cases, fraud detection in novel scenarios, and strategic capital allocation.
Skills to focus on
Sources: Felten AIOE (2021), Anthropic Economic Index (2026), Eloundou GPT Exposure (Science, 2024), ILO GenAI (2025), Pizzinelli et al. bottleneck model. Full methodology.
Singapore Now
Current labour market conditions and how they affect this role.
Cooling, but not collapsing. Vacancies and re-entry are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.1%
↓ 3.1% YoY
Hiring
1.5%
vs 0.9% resign
Retrenchment
1.5
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
67.7%
find work in 12mo· -5.3pp
Professionals, Managers, Executives & Technicians · 2025 Q4
Top Industries
Industry vacancy overlays use the latest published detailed cross-tab, which can lag the main labour monitor.
What You Can Do
Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) has some offset potential, but it depends on task redesign holding up in practice and on workers clearing the main switching frictions.
Published transition support
Related roles you could transition to
Risk-reducingHigh displacement pressure, but comparatively credible risk-reducing moves exist — the strongest scores 71% match. Escape-route quality, not pressure alone, shapes how risk resolves.
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Higher risk than 74% of occupations · V7 structural score
Raw scores
AIOE 1.381 · θ 0.666 · C-AIOE 1.132
Stability
watch · Optimistic 26% · Pessimistic 34%
Score range (best/worst case)
Exposure 78–98% · Net risk 22.04–31.28%
Scoring basis
V7 structural score. Uses task-concentration-weighted exposure, human bottleneck, and demand resilience. V6 baseline fields are retained for release-to-release comparison.-3.3pp versus retained V6 baseline.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 7,700 · Median 12,060 · 75th 19,500
Evidence & sources
Data matching
submajor_fallback · SSOC 24133
SOL 2026: prefix match
Jobs in Demand: prefix match
Real-world AI usage: +4% vs estimated
Data quality
67% · Matching 0.60 · Market data 0.75 · Freshness 0.84
100% weighted task match · 31% effective coverage
AI overlap by data source
Weights: aioe 24% · anthropic 26% · eloundou 25% · ilo 26%
Conflicting data signals
Tools & offset factors
What helps
- A meaningful share of the work can likely be reorganized around AI rather than removed outright.
Worker profile & local context
- Vacancy rate is 3.1% and was essentially flat versus last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (1.5% vs 0.9%).
- Retrenchment was low at 1.5 per 1,000 employees.
- 67.7% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
- Employer pressure is low, based on 2 recent Singapore-relevant company signals.
Worker profile
Gender mix
41% male / 59% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 24 Business & Administration Professionals.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy96% employees, 4% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Mostly full-time4% part-time and 96% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Mid-career heavy14% aged 15 to 29, 62% aged 30 to 49, and 24% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Degree-heavyDegree 81%; Diploma / professional qualification 15%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 23% lowerPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $13,365, female $10,259.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Sengkang, Bedok, Tampines19% of workers in this occupation group live in these three planning areas.
Residential concentration
Broadly distributed30% live across the top five planning areas in the 2020 Census.
Commute pattern
Mid-range commutesEstimated average commute 37.5 minutes. 33% take 46 minutes or more.
Role profile
How this role's work breaks down across key dimensions. This is a general profile, not an individual measurement.
Workflow dimensions (0 = low, 1 = high)
How this changes by career stage
Senior workers benefit from institutional knowledge and judgment that AI cannot replicate. Entry-level roles have higher task overlap with AI.
Frequently asked questions
Will AI replace Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator)?
Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) has 88% AI task overlap but 40% human bottleneck protection — at the 74th percentile across 562 occupations. High exposure meets organizational friction, creating offsetting forces. Net displacement risk: 27% (Moderate). Median wage: SGD 12,060/month.
What is the AI risk score for Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator)?
Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) has an AI displacement risk of 27%, rated Moderate. AI task overlap: 88%. Human advantage: 40%. Local demand buffer: 65%.
What career transitions are available for Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator)?
Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) has modeled transition pathways to related occupations. The strongest adjacent pathway is Financial product structurer, based on skill and wage similarity (model-estimated). Transition scoring accounts for wage preservation, training ease, and destination quality.
How does Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) salary compare in the live market?
Fund/Portfolio manager (including asset allocator) earns a median gross wage of SGD 12,060/month in the live market (25th-75th percentile: SGD 7,700-19,500). This is 168% above median across all 562 scored occupations, and 86% above group median within Professionals occupations.