The Polish startup AI Investments uses AI to manage the assets of investors. They are gathered as part of the Luxembourg alternative investment fund Omphalos Fund.
The company was founded a few years ago by Paweł Skrzypek, previously the chief architect of IT systems at Cyfrowy Polsat. In 2017, he was joined by Dominik Libicki, former CEO of Cyfrowy Polsat for many years. In January 2019, both started investing their funds in financial instruments using the AI tool developed by their company. When they achieved a rate of return of 20% per annum, they decided also to interest other investors.
AI Investments
An autonomous mechanism decides what to invest in. It is obvious that essential restrictions are built into it that minimize investment risk. For example, only 0.5% of all funds can be invested in one instrument. And only up to 30% of money from a given portfolio can go to one economic area. It also has a stop-loss mechanism that automatically closes positions that start to bring too much loss. In addition, the startup invests only in companies with a capitalization of over $5 billion, and indices of the largest stock exchanges in the world. It invests in commodities, currencies, and bonds of several of the most developed countries in the world, too. A total of 260 financial instruments, both short and long-term.
Currently, the company is working on creating a new investment fund. It will be more powerfully based on AI intuition, resigning from human intervention, eliminating restrictions, and minimizing risks. It is worth it because the value of the asset management market with the use of AI is estimated at USD 2.61 billion and is growing dynamically. Their solution makes slightly different decisions than the algorithms used when investing by traditional funds, with no worse results.
Future
The startup does not currently see too many competitors in the global market. And its solution is already used by American companies such as Citadel Securities and PDT Partners. Funds that have been using AI for 12 years have been doing better than other funds. Nevertheless, none of the big players in Poland is planning to use this technology for the time being.
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