AI agents are increasingly deployed for professional investment research, yet no benchmark captures the complexity of the full investor workflow. Existing benchmarks mainly target financial data extraction, a narrow slice that current models have largely saturated, while reference-based metrics and generic LLM-as-a-judge scoring fall short on the open-ended, long-form answers that real analyst queries demand.
arXiv:2608. 16386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial agents must do more than recall domain knowledge: they must be both reliable, executing precise operations over grounded evidence, and executive, sustaining long-horizon research whose conclusions remain auditable.
By Agent Team, B. Zhang, Yaze Geng, Lei Tang, Yaoyang Yi, Zonghan Wu, Yifan Hu, Kun Wang, Qingsong Wen, Yilei Shao
arXiv:2606. 03918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can increasingly handle the mechanical tasks of financial analysis: retrieving documents, calculating formulas, updating spreadsheets.
By Eric Cho, Shawn Huang, Alice Lu, Andy Lyu
arXiv:2606. 03829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial-research answers are decision-relevant only when another analyst can audit how they were produced: which source was chosen, which period and accounting definition were used, which assumptions were made, and how the calculation was performed.
By Alex Wang, Georg Meinhardt, Jacob Katz, Joseph H. Kim, Pratyush K. Chaudhary, Chase Blagden, Eric Xu
arXiv:2607. 19409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have accelerated deployment of agentic systems in operational finance.
By Wolfgang M. Pauli, Sarah Panda, Kidus Admassu, Said Bleik, Ademola Okerinde, Jeremy Reynolds
arXiv:2607. 20645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Frontier Financial Judgement, a challenging new benchmark developed in collaboration with professional equity analysts to assess agents' ability to replicate expert human judgements.
By Joshua Harris