Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-3031.03
Investment Fund Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate investment strategy or operations for a large pool of liquid assets supplied by institutional investors or individual investors.
- US jobs
- 841,710 (SOC 11-3031 group, "Financial Managers")
- Median wage
- $166,570 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of investment fund managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Manage investment funds to maximize return on client investments.
- Select specific investments or investment mixes for purchase by an investment fund.
- Monitor financial or operational performance of individual investments to ensure portfolios meet risk goals.
- Select or direct the execution of trades.
- Develop or implement fund investment policies or strategies.
- Perform or evaluate research, such as detailed company or industry analyses, to inform financial forecasting, decision making, or valuation.
- Present investment information, such as product risks, fees, or fund performance statistics.
- Develop, implement, or monitor security valuation policies.
- Meet with investors to determine investment goals or to discuss investment strategies.
- Attend investment briefings or consult financial media to stay abreast of relevant investment markets.
- Prepare for and respond to regulatory inquiries.
- Evaluate the potential of new product developments or market opportunities, according to factors such as business plans, technologies, or market potential.
Other job titles for this occupation (23)
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager · Fixed Income Vice President (Fixed Income VP) · Investment Analysis Vice President (Investment Analysis VP) · Portfolio Manager · Annual Fund Manager · Asset Management Manager · Asset Management Project Manager · Asset Manager · Digital Asset Manager · Financial Planning and Analysis Finance Manager · Financial Planning and Analysis Manager · Financial Planning Director · Financial Planning Manager · Fund Administrator (Fund Admin) · Hedge Fund Manager · Institutional Asset Manager · Investment Banking Director · Investment Fund Manager · Investment Manager · Investments Manager · Mutual Fund Manager · Pension Fund Manager · Wealth Manager