TREE NEWS reports: Hedge funds slashed their technology holdings at the fastest pace since Goldman Sachs began tracking the data in 2016, during the five trading days through Oct. 15. The bank’s prime brokerage unit reported the largest such reduction on record, while total trading activity fell at the quickest rate in nearly three months. Tech was the worst-performing sector in the MSCI World Index over that stretch, as the Nasdaq 100 dropped 5.5% last week, its biggest decline since April 2025, amid a global unwind of AI-themed trades.
Hedge funds cut tech stakes at fastest pace in at least a decade: Goldman
AI take
The record speed of the unwind, rather than its size, is the signal: positioning had grown crowded enough that a single week of AI-themed de-risking produced the sharpest tech reduction Goldman has logged. The simultaneous collapse in overall trading activity suggests funds are stepping back rather than rotating into other sectors, which matters for anyone relying on hedge fund flows as a liquidity backstop. Whether this is a one-week flush or the start of a longer de-grossing cycle is the open question worth watching.
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