Year-to-date the American S&P 500 index has rallied by over 7.5%. However, with a large proportion of these gains driven by just seven technology names, just how sustainable this trend has become is a hot topic among investors. This effect has been exacerbated in recent weeks as the 1Q23 earnings season results proved more fruitful for tech companies relative to other US sectors.
In late November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT – an AI driven chatbot that can answer complex questions and handle almost any topic. A couple of months later, Microsoft (who is the primary investor) added a similar function to its Office suite. As more and more companies delve into the artificial intelligence world, we take a look at AI funds using our EPFR Stock Barometer tool: is AI going to be the next bubble for investors?
As Tesla halted the production line at its Shanghai plant, Steve Xinlei Shen uses EPFR’s Stock Flows dataset to assess to assess investor sentiment trends on Tesla
Find out where EPFR’s Fund Flows and Allocations data has been cited in January 2023, including leading media such as Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.
