ETERNAL Launches Smart Allocation Strategy, Establishing a “Human–AI Collaborative Investment System”
The financial world of 2020 will be remembered as a year of profound transformation. The convergence of a global pandemic, low interest rates, inflation expectations, and unprecedented policy interventions created a highly complex economic landscape that continuously reshaped investment strategies. Against this backdrop, ETERNAL DIGITAL FUND LTD officially launched its new core strategy — the Smart Allocation System — in December 2020, marking the firm’s official entry into a new era of human–AI collaborative investing.

Smart Allocation represents a significant strategic upgrade following ETERNAL’s AI Risk Matrix System. It is not merely an algorithmic innovation but a reconstruction of the investment decision-making philosophy. The system integrates the computational power of artificial intelligence with the judgment and insight of ETERNAL’s human research team, forming a closed-loop decision process that combines macroeconomic allocation and micro-level trading execution. This dual-layer design allows the firm to maintain agility in volatile markets while preserving its core traits of rationality and prudence.
At ETERNAL’s internal strategy meeting in London, Bryan Thomas Whalen, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of ETERNAL DIGITAL FUND, remarked:
“Artificial intelligence has become the core driver of asset management. But true intelligence lies not in replacing humans, but in building consensus between humans and machines. The goal of Smart Allocation is to enable algorithms to understand human judgment logic — while allowing humans to trust the model’s reasoning process.”
The strategy is built upon a three-tier structural model: the Data Intelligence Layer, the Strategy Engine Layer, and the Human–AI Decision Layer.
The Data Intelligence Layer, powered by the AIVestor System, continuously gathers global multidimensional market data — including macroeconomic indicators, industry cycle signals, and liquidity metrics.
The Strategy Engine Layer applies machine learning algorithms to dynamically calculate the risk–return ratios and optimal weighting for each asset class.
Finally, within the Human–AI Decision Layer, ETERNAL’s portfolio managers synthesize model results with forward-looking market insights to finalize real-world position allocations.
This iterative process — “algorithm proposes, human decides, system verifies and adapts” — establishes a dynamic equilibrium between machine precision and human experience.
During the turbulent financial year of 2020, global assets diverged sharply in performance. Equity markets rebounded rapidly under policy stimulus, while bond, commodity, and foreign exchange markets remained fraught with uncertainty. The introduction of Smart Allocation served as ETERNAL’s response to this complexity. By continuously tracking capital flows and volatility structures, the system successfully identified the growth sector’s excess return potential in Q4 2020, and dynamically rebalanced exposures between U.S. equities and Asian technology assets while maintaining tight risk control. Internal backtesting showed that, between October and December 2020, portfolios using Smart Allocation achieved approximately 27% lower volatility and a 40% improvement in the Sharpe ratio compared with traditional static allocation models.
Unlike past frameworks that relied solely on quantitative signals, ETERNAL’s new system emphasizes “collaborative intelligence.” The model not only interprets price data but also captures policy semantics and market sentiment through Natural Language Processing (NLP). For example, on the day the Federal Reserve announced its monetary easing policy, the Smart Allocation system detected a “long-term dovish bias” via semantic analysis and executed a full portfolio rebalance within hours. Meanwhile, ETERNAL’s investment team independently reviewed and stress-tested the AI-generated recommendations to ensure consistency with long-term strategic objectives.
The establishment of this framework signifies ETERNAL DIGITAL FUND’s evolution from an “AI-driven quantitative institution” to a “human–AI co-governed asset management firm.” In his strategic release, Bryan Thomas Whalen wrote:
“Artificial intelligence can see the future of data, but only humans can understand the nature of risk. True intelligent investing is not a race for speed — it is a harmony of cognition.”
The rollout of Smart Allocation marks another milestone in the maturation of ETERNAL’s asset management architecture. Beginning in 2021, the firm plans to implement the system across multi-asset portfolios and global strategic funds, achieving stable growth across regions and cycles. Additionally, ETERNAL will open technical interfaces to institutional clients, enabling them to customize investment models based on the Smart Allocation framework.
Industry analysts note that ETERNAL’s Human–AI Collaborative Investment System represents an important directional shift for the asset management sector. Over the past decade, the rise of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence has dramatically improved decision efficiency — but “black-box” models have also raised concerns about transparency. ETERNAL’s approach provides a solution: combining AI’s precision and scalability with human strategic judgment, restoring balance between rationality and understanding in capital management.
As 2020 drew to a close, markets remained volatile and the future uncertain. Yet amid the transformation of the global financial order, ETERNAL DIGITAL FUND, through its Smart Allocation Strategy, established a new paradigm for the industry — one where technology does not replace humanity, but elevates the art of rational investing to a higher plane.
