It's so sad! High frequency quantification and AI driven A-share market makers have repelled the old giant Schroeder Group! It's really sad, brothers and sisters! Who would have thought that the high-frequency quantitative and AI driven A-share market would directly drive back the European asset management giant Schroeder Group! That's right, it's the British asset management giant with a history of 220 years - Schroder Group, which recently announced its complete withdrawal from the Chinese public fund market! As soon as this news came out, I was shocked. This is a real European financial aristocrat who has been playing with money since the Napoleonic era and manages trillions of assets worldwide, definitely at the level of a big brother in the industry. What about the results? In the Chinese asset management market, I didn't understand the situation and couldn't survive. In the first quarter, I had a net outflow of 2.2 billion pounds, and in the end, I had to close down and leave in a miserable state. I'm just puzzled, I really can't figure it out! This year, the A-share and US stock markets have been so strong. If you ask any retail investor, they will mostly make less profit thanks to less. Even if you buy some index funds with your eyes closed, you can taste some sweetness! Why can you, a globally renowned veteran fund company with top-notch investment research resources, turn your account into a loss? How much skill does it take to suffer such a huge loss in such a good market and be forced to withdraw in the end?! Later on, I pondered and finally realized that behind this was not Schroeder's lack of effort, but a more terrifying and realistic truth - the current financial market is no longer what we remember it to be. Previously, we thought that investing was about the experience of fund managers, the depth of research teams, and who could find more high-quality targets. But now, it's not that kind of gameplay anymore! What are we fighting for now? We are competing for AI computing power! We are striving to quantify the iteration speed of robots! Take the recent personal finance feature update on ChatGPT as an example. It is only available to ChatGPT Pro users in the United States. In other words, their AI financial capabilities are already far ahead of ours. After inquiring with friends in the industry, it was found that over 85% of private and public funds in China have already adopted fully automated AI quantification systems. This thing is not static, it's not just about installing it. It can learn market changes in real time, optimize multi factor strategies in real time, and evolve itself every day. It's even more diligent and accurate than the top fund managers. Every rally and smash you see on the market may seem like a financial game, but behind it all, there may be dozens of AI agents competing with each other in milliseconds. The reaction speed of our human brain can last for hundreds of milliseconds. Compared to AI's millisecond and microsecond level reactions, it's like a snail crawling, unable to keep up with this pace, let alone compete with others. Looking at old European institutions like Schroeder, their gameplay still remains in the traditional mode, relying on manual investment research and the experience judgment of fund managers. Their AI capabilities are already lagging far behind those of China and the United States. Do they still want to make a living in the Chinese market with their old ways of playing? Isn't this an obvious delivery of food? Being targeted by domestic AI quantitative robots is actually an inevitable result, which is not surprising at all. On a larger scale, I increasingly believe that in the future of personal investment and financial management, the competition is not about your financial intelligence or knowledge of financial management, but about how strong the AI behind you is. Can the AI agent you use continuously monitor the global market 24 hours a day and capture every arbitrage opportunity? Can we capture market price differences in milliseconds and complete trades quickly? Can we evolve and optimize our strategies based on market changes, and always stay ahead of the market? The answer is simple: if you can't defeat someone else's AI agent, you can only be harvested in the capital market. This is an iron law, and no one can be an exception. And it's not just A-shares, I've found that the cryptocurrency market is also following the same path. Nowadays, high-frequency quantitative and AI driven market makers have long modeled and digitized every action of individual investors. You think you are actively trading and thinking that your operations are very clever, but in fact, every step of your operation, every buying and selling decision, is predicted by someone else's algorithm. They have already figured you out and are waiting to harvest you. Times have really changed, brothers and sisters. In the past, people played in the market, and we relied on our own judgment and experience to find opportunities in the market; Now then? It's AI playing with AI, and we humans, to put it simply, seem to be just tools providing capital to AI. Saying too much is like tears, I can only slowly adapt to this AI dominated investment era.