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Is It Value? Is It Growth? The International Financials Sector Can Now Be Both
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International financials now combine value and growth traits, as soaring share prices weaken value scores while stronger earnings shift major banks toward growth classifications and balance sector styles overall globally.
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Emerging markets, reconsidered
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Emerging markets deserve reconsideration as stronger policies, governance, attractive valuations and diversification improve their appeal, though wide country and company differences make selective active investing essential for managing risks effectively.
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2026 Midyear Equity Outlook: The Market Is Narrow. The Opportunity Set Isn’t.
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Despite narrow equity leadership, opportunities are widening across AI supply chains, cyclicals, consumers and healthcare, making disciplined active stock selection crucial amid concentration, inflation, rate, policy and geopolitical risks ahead.
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AN AI JOB APOCALYPSE?
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A near-term AI job apocalypse appears unlikely, but routine white-collar work faces displacement. Outcomes depend on adoption costs, new job creation and whether AI replaces or complements human workers ultimately.
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Recommended Video or Podcast
The video advises investors to balance AI’s transformative potential against technical limitations, adoption costs, monetisation uncertainty and high valuations while prioritising companies with strong fundamentals, scalable applications and demonstrable long-term returns.
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2.Video: The AI Story Is Collapsing (Thanks To China): [Click here]
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China’s efficient, low-cost AI models and domestic chips could undermine America’s expensive AI boom, weakening Nvidia’s pricing power, challenging data-centre returns and exposing speculative valuations across concentrated technology stocks globally.
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3.Video: Why South Korea's AI Stock Mania Is a Warning to the World: [Click here]
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South Korea’s AI-fuelled chip rally has enriched retail investors, but extreme dependence on Samsung and SK Hynix leaves markets, household wealth and the economy vulnerable to falling demand and sentiment.
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4.Podcast: Why Big Companies Are Rethinking How They Work With Startups: [Click here]
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Corporate venturing is shifting beyond startup investment toward venture building and venture clienting, allowing large companies to access innovation while giving startups customers, validation, revenue and practical pathways to scale.
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Modern fund families combine active, index and exchange-traded products, creating internal competition that improves active performance, encourages managerial effort, lowers fees, stabilizes investor flows and enables beneficial cooperation through cross-trading.
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Conferences & Events
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ASFA’s 2026 summit explores how investment leaders can navigate geopolitics, monetary policy, AI, energy, liquidity, ESG and market fragmentation while building resilient, transparent, diversified and forward-looking institutional portfolios for members.The conference is on August 27, 2026
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PitchBook’s webinar examines how record mega-IPOs, AI-driven deals, unicorn exits and concentrated fundraising are reshaping US venture capital while masking broader market contraction and challenging smaller companies and funds nationwide.The conference is on August 12, 2026
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