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Trine Nordlie

Trine Nordlie is Master’s student at the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH, in Bergen.

How good are LLMs in investor risk profiling?

As the financial industry increasingly looks to large language models for new solutions, a study asks how OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 and Google’s Bard compare with Swiss bank experts in determining investors’ risk profiles. The results: relying on the AI-based evaluations does not appear to make a significant difference to the bottom line. However, the LLMs are not good at explaining the reasoning behind the risk profiles.