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The newest hires in finance won\u2019t have to wait years to become managers. They\u2019ll be overseeing artificial intelligence agents from the time they join, raising the question of what happens to the current middle managers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc\u2019s Kevin Sneader.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen our young folks now start work, they\u2019re managing agents,\u201d Sneader, who leads the Wall Street bank\u2019s business in Asia Pacific outside Japan, said Thursday at the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore. \u201cThey have to make the most of this virtual army that they\u2019ve now got.\u201d<\/p>\n
Previous generations often spent years in the job before they got to manage anyone, and re-deploying these managers will be the \u201cgenerational challenge for many, many segments\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n
His comments suggest AI could upend the traditional banking career path, where junior staff spend years on analysis and preparatory work before moving up to manage others.<\/p>\n
Rather than fretting about mass job losses due to the technology, Sneader and others speaking on a panel about AI and finance were focused on how roles would be reshaped.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat management task no longer sits with the middle manager; it sits with the front line,\u201d Sneader said. \u201cWe don\u2019t quite know what\u2019s going to happen to that group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sandra Peterson, an operating partner at investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, said the traditional career ladder may not survive. \u201cIt used to be that professional service firms were pyramids,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d show up, and you know, you march your way through, and if you survived, you got to the next level, the next level, the next level.\u201d She said that with AI doing much of the grunt work, it isn\u2019t clear firms would need as many entry level positions.<\/p>\n
Singapore\u2019s financial regulator sees the same shifts happening. Operations staff will need to become managers and supervisors of AI agents, Chia Der Jiun, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said at the same panel. Banks will also need fewer fresh graduates for analysis and preparatory work, he said.<\/p>\n
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The city-state has been preparing for these changes through training bank staff in AI skills as well as working with the universities to ensure its graduates are ready for the new world, Chia said.<\/p>\n
For young people however, Sneader said the upside goes beyond angling for a finance job. \u201cThere\u2019s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur to create something,\u201d he said, noting that fewer resources are needed to start a business nowadays.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s quite an exciting part of the future when we\u2019re all spending too much time, perhaps worrying about the old world.<\/p>\n
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