Avangard Launches New AI-Powered Investment Fund Built on More Than Two Decades of Research and Machine Learning Development
Publish Date: 2026-06-16 12:35:00
Source Domain: markets.financialcontent.com
PERTH, AU / ACCESS Newswire / June 16, 2026 / Western Australia-based investment manager Avangard has announced the launch of the Avangard Systematic Australian Equity Fund, a new investment vehicle that brings the firm’s proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven investment strategy to wholesale investors under an enhanced fund structure from 1 July 2026.
The launch marks a significant milestone for the East Perth-based firm, which has spent years developing a fully systematic investment process designed to remove emotion, bias and subjective decision-making from equity investing.
Founded by CEO and Portfolio Manager Alfred “Alf” Eggo and COO Jules Aknin, Avangard was built around a simple premise: that advances in data science, machine learning and computational analysis could fundamentally improve the way investment decisions are made.
At the center of the firm’s approach is A.L.F.R.E.D. (Adaptive Learning For Ranking Equities and Derivatives), a proprietary AI and machine learning system developed by Eggo following more than two decades of financial market research and a career that began in the mining sector with CRA/Rio Tinto.
Unlike traditional fund managers that rely on analyst forecasts, discretionary stock selection or market commentary, Avangard’s investment process is entirely rules-based. The system processes more than 5.5 billion data points across over 2,500 ASX-listed equities and exchange-traded funds, drawing on up to a century of historical market data and decades of proprietary momentum research.
“We built Avangard around the belief that investment decisions should be driven by scientific evidence, not opinion,” said Eggo.
“The technology we’ve developed is designed to identify opportunities through data analysis at a scale that simply isn’t possible through traditional methods. Every investment decision is generated systematically through the same disciplined process.”
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