How to invest in investors

Money management is lucrative, but it pays to look carefully at profitability, says Bruce Packard.

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Nvidia’s shares have almost quadrupled since last October. The maker of H100 semiconductors has been an obvious winner from investors’ excitement over artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT. Yet the buzz is well and truly in the price, with Nvidia’s shares trading on 40 times sales, which seems expensive given the most obvious use case for LLMs is cheating on GCSE coursework.

Perhaps identifying some less obvious winners and losers from the AI boom could prove profitable. It has been suggested that LLMs could help automate financial advice. In February last year, Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) announced that it would spend £175m on strategic technology investment. The group intends to offer “augmented advice” – which Hargreaves Lansdown defines as “hyper-personalised guidance at moments that matter to you”. This spend may allow HL to target more of the wealth-management market, rather than just self-directed investors.

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Bruce Packard
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Bruce is a self-invested, low-frequency, buy-and-hold investor focused on quality. A former equity analyst, specialising in UK banks, Bruce now writes for MoneyWeek and Sharepad. He also does his own investing, and enjoy beach volleyball in my spare time. Bruce co-hosts the Investors' Roundtable Podcast with Roland Head, Mark Simpson and Maynard Paton.