The investment industry is at a crossroads. Investors are demanding strategies that can navigate massive volumes of data, volatile markets, and accelerating trading speeds, factors that often outpace human decision-making. While artificial intelligence has become a fixture in portfolio research and analytics, it has rarely been entrusted with full control over investment decisions.
FINQ is changing that dynamic. The AI-managed fund manager has launched AIUP and AINT*, two actively managed U.S. large-cap equity ETFs now available to investors. Powered by a proprietary autonomous AI model licensed from its parent company, FINQ positions these ETFs as the first SEC-registered funds in the U.S. to be entirely managed by artificial intelligence.
Beyond Active and Passive Investing
For decades, investors have chosen between active management, where portfolio managers make discretionary calls, and passive strategies that track indices. FINQ offers a new alternative: a fully autonomous, data-driven approach in which artificial intelligence serves as the portfolio manager.
FINQ’s AI framework ranks all 500 S&P 500® companies daily, guiding portfolio construction, stock selection, weighting, and rebalancing. Decisions are made systematically and consistently, without human interpretation, emotion, or bias. Human involvement is limited to oversight and governance, ensuring compliance and operational integrity.
AI as the Decision-Maker, Not an Assistant
Many so-called “AI-powered” strategies still rely on humans to make final decisions, with AI serving only as a support tool. FINQ flips this model on its head.
“AI in the investment world has the capacity to outperform humans,” said Eldad Tamir, Founder and CEO of FINQ. “FINQ is built on a data-only system that makes investment decisions much better than humans, as it can process immense amounts of data, without the disadvantages associated with human fear, greed, urgency to act, and other disabling human attributes.”
AIUP and AINT* are fully AI-managed. For the first time in the U.S.-regulated ETF market, humans do not select securities, override signals, or adjust portfolios based on narratives or market sentiment. The ETFs represent a new category: AI-managed funds,e, in which artificial intelligence is not a tool but the manager.
One Engine, Two Unique Strategies
Both ETFs use the same AI infrastructure but deliver different exposures:
- AIUP focuses on long-term positions in U.S. large-cap equities that the AI ranks as most attractive, maintaining a portfolio of top-ranked stocks.
- AINT* employs a more sophisticated, dollar-neutral strategy, shorting the lowest-ranked stocks while investing 1 of the top-ranked stocks per dollar, capturing opportunities on both sides of the market.
Democratizing Autonomous Investment
By packaging AI-managed strategies in familiar ETF structures, FINQ aims to make advanced, data-driven portfolio management accessible to both professional and retail investors.
“AIUP and AINT* reflect FINQ’s belief that the future of investing lies in systematic, data-driven decision-making,” said Eldad Tamir, Founder and CEO of FINQ. “By delivering AI-managed strategies through ETFs, we aim to make advanced investment frameworks accessible within a structure investors already know and trust.”
When Algorithms Take the Lead
The launch of AIUP and AINT* signals a turning point in asset management. As financial markets continue to grow more complex, faster, and data-driven, autonomous AI models like FINQ’s may redefine what it means to manage money, challenge traditional assumptions about human-led investment, and set a new standard for portfolio execution.
