- AI enables active fund management at ETF costs
- New ETF (IE000L98FUF7) listed on all major trading venues
- Amundi serves as fund partner for the active next generation ETF
Hamburg und Frankfurt/Main, 19. August 2026. Harnessing artificial intelligence for optimal investment decisions is now becoming a reality for investors through a new active ETF from the LAIQON Group. The objective is simple: invest broadly in an equity index while aiming to achieve higher returns, all at a low cost.
The launch of this new generation of ETFs was officially celebrated on Tuesday, 18 August 2026, at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The new LAIQON European Equity AI Optimized Active UCITS ETF (IE000L98FUF7) is now listed on the major trading venues Xetra, gettex, Tradegate, and LS Exchange, making it available through all key banks, savings banks, investment platforms, and trading apps. Institutional and private investors can therefore trade the active ETF easily and conveniently from now on. Amundi serves as fund partner for the first Next Generation ETF.
AI enables active fund management at ETF costs
Artificial intelligence enables data analysis at an unprecedented speed. Millions of data points can be processed within seconds. To identify patterns, LAIQON Group’s proprietary AI, trained over many years, draws on historical data dating back to 1993.
Investments in European large- and mid-cap equities are continuously monitored, and portfolio reallocations can be made on a daily basis. This allows investors to benefit directly from the alpha potential of individual stocks, industry sectors, and countries.
To achieve this, the ETF targets a tracking error of 2% to 5%. This deliberate deviation from the MSCI Europe Screened Index enables active management. Country, sector, and individual stock weightings may differ from the benchmark within defined limits, creating the potential for outperformance. The Next Generation ETF therefore combines AI-driven active portfolio management with the cost advantages typically associated with ETFs.
“With this active ETF, both private and institutional investors can now access the benefits of our proven AI technology in their portfolios more easily than ever before. AI-supported portfolio management systematically identifies the alpha potential of individual securities and enables investors to benefit from outperformance,” says Christian Sievers, Chief AI Officer of LAIQON AG.
The LAIQON Group has already been successfully leveraging the advantages of AI-supported wealth management for years across wealth management mandates, investment funds, and white-label partnerships.
Amundi as fund partner for the active next generation ETF
The LAIQON Group launched the Next Generation ETF in partnership with Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager. The ETF utilizes Amundi’s ETF-as-a-Service platform. Within this partnership, LAIQON contributes its expertise in AI-supported portfolio management, while Amundi is responsible for managing the ETF on its white-label and active ETF platform and contributes its extensive experience in ETF structuring.
This fund is only the first active Next Generation ETF within a broader product family. LAIQON intends to launch additional ETFs based on the same concept, using AI to identify alpha opportunities in further investment regions and thereby create the potential for outperformance.
Product details
| Fondsname: | LAIQON European Equity AI Optimized Active UCITS ETF |
| WKN / ISIN: | A42FBA / IE000L98FUF7 |
| Fund initiator: | LAIQON AG |
| Depositary: | HSBC Continental Europe |
| Management Company: | Amundi Ireland Ltd. |
| Delegated Sub-Investment Manager: | LAIC Vermögensverwaltung GmbH |
| Benchmark: | MSCI Europe Screened Index |
| Investment universe: | MSCI Europe Index |
| Number of Holdings: | 100-150 |
| SFDR classification: | Article 8 |
| Fund currency: | EUR |
| Income treatment: | Accumulating |
| Distribution country: | Germany |
| Ongoing charges p.a.: | 0,49% |
About LAIQON AG:
LAIQON AG (LQAG) is a rapidly growing premium wealth specialist focused on sustainable investments. The company manages assets under administration of EUR 11.3 billion (as of 7 August 2026).
Founded in 1995, the independent investment company has been publicly listed since 2005. Since March 2017, LAIQON AG has been listed in the Scale segment of Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt (ISIN: DE000A12UP29).
Headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin, the LAIQON Group offers institutional and private investors a broad range of sustainable investment products and solutions via its platform. These include actively managed and AI-powered mutual and special funds, standardized as well as holistic and bespoke wealth management solutions, wealth management partnerships, and strategic asset allocation consulting services.
Its AI subsidiary LAIC®, with the proprietary LAIC ADVISOR®, is among the pioneers of artificial intelligence in wealth management.
LAIQON relies on state-of-the-art platform technology for its processes and data management. Its Digital Asset Platform (DAP 4.0) enables the Group to deliver all services digitally, ranging from asset and risk management to client onboarding and reporting. This infrastructure allows LAIC to scale efficiently to large asset volumes and provide its products and services to third parties through white-label partnerships.
Through its GROWTH 28 strategy, LAIQON AG aims to position itself as one of the leading AI-driven mid-cap companies in the European wealth management industry.
About Amundi:
Amundi, Europe’s leading asset manager and one of the top ten global asset managers¹, offers more than 200 million clients a comprehensive range of actively and passively managed savings and investment solutions across listed and private market assets.
Its offering is designed for a broad range of distribution partners, including banks, wealth managers, financial advisers, institutional investors, and corporates. These investment solutions are complemented by services and technology tools covering the entire asset management value chain.
As a publicly listed subsidiary of the Crédit Agricole Group, Amundi manages approximately EUR 2.6 trillion in assets under management².
With six international investment hubs³, extensive financial and extra-financial research capabilities, and a longstanding commitment to responsible investing, Amundi is one of the most influential players in the global asset management industry.
Thanks to its strong local presence, particularly across Europe and Asia, Amundi’s clients benefit from the expertise and guidance of more than 5,400 professionals across 34 countries.
Amundi is a trusted partner, working every day in the best interests of its clients and society as a whole.
1 Source: IPE Top 500 Asset Managers, published June 2026, based on assets under management as of 31 December 2025.
2 Amundi data as of 30 June 2026.
3 Paris, London, Dublin, Milan, Tokyo, and San Antonio (through Amundi's strategic partnership with Victory Capital).
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Date: Jan. 2026 / Doc. C1
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