artificial intelligence

NextFund: A Unified Performance Tracking Platform for Agentic Portfolio Management

arXiv:2607.11141

summary

The paper presents NextFund, a platform that records and visualizes the full decision-making process of LLM‑based financial agents in live markets, enabling detailed comparison and diagnosis of portfolio management performance.

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) based agents are beginning to participate in portfolio construction and market analysis, where decisions must be justified under evolving information and risk constraints. Current assessment practice, however, remains poorly aligned with this setting: many studies rely on static examinations or report only terminal portfolio returns, while the intermediate evidence, analyst judgments, and execution steps that produced those returns stay largely invisible. We introduce NextFund, an evaluation platform that makes financial-agent behavior observable under live market conditions. The platform couples time-consistent market access, coordinated multi-agent analysis, and persistent logging of the full decision path from observation to trade. Through an interactive Trading Arena, users can compare models across markets, inspect equity curves, and drill from leaderboard outcomes down to individual justifications. We present NextFund on Hong Kong, U.S., and China A-share equities, illustrating how inspectable decision histories enable fairer benchmarking and more actionable diagnosis. Our demo is available at https://paradoox.cn/nextfund/.

Topics & keywords

#financial agents#portfolio management#large language models#evaluation platform#trading arenaLLM agentsdecision path loggingtime‑consistent market accessequity curve analysisbenchmarking