How Hedge Funds and Family Offices Use I Know First, and The Performance Behind It
Summary
- AI has moved from edge to baseline: active AI use among hedge funds jumped to 46% from 18% in a year, and 95% use generative AI. Frontier models can now place trades through Robinhood, but they remain new and unproven, while I Know First has forecast markets for institutions for over a decade.
- I Know First runs a self-learning algorithm built on genetic programming and neural networks, forecasting more than 13,500 assets across six horizons, from 3 days to 1 year, with two numbers per asset: a signal for direction and strength, and a predictability score for confidence.
- Hedge funds and family offices run the same product two ways: a daily forecast that generates and screens ideas, over their own list or the pre-made forecast that surfaces I Know First's top opportunities, and a co-developed systematic strategy on a fixed allocation, rebalanced monthly.
- The combined strategy has returned 756% since inception on January 29, 2020, against 129.1% for the S&P 500, and three 2026 portfolios show it adding return long and short, in both rising and falling markets.
This Current Status of AI Adoption article was written by He Xu – Financial Analyst at I Know First.
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