The best funds to bet against the human

Robotics has already attracted plenty of investors' cash, says David C Stevenson. But it's not too late to join the party.

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If you're willing to take the risks, follow the money
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Just four years ago, if you'd wanted to invest in robotics and automation, you'd have struggled to find a broad, diversified fund. You would probably have been forced to invest in a broad technology fund with a small amount of exposure to robo and artificial-intelligence (AI) stocks. But today you are spoiled for choice. To say the sector is hot is an epic understatement I've never seen a niche take in quite so much money quite so quickly.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.