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Quick View: An argument for the long view during AI volatility
by Denny Fish, Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst, Janus Henderson Investors Portfolio Manager Denny Fish explains why the market…
AI Reality Check: Looking Beyond the Adoption Curve
by Lei Qiu, Head—Thematic Equities, AllianceBernstein Long-term AI winners will need to translate deployment into defensible profits. AI…
Faster Decisions, No Compromise: Inside BMO Insurance’s SmartDecision
BMO Insurance's Katarina Nikolic, on how SmartDecision delivers market leading real-time underwriting decisions up to $5-million, which eliminates delays and uncertainty in the decision-making process.
Running Scared: Amazon, Intel Put Tech on Defense
AI and chip-related stocks plunged again after Amazon's poor results and Intel's weak outlook sent those shares to sharp losses. Staples and Treasuries rose in a defensive move.
The Execution Layer: Where AI’s Real Winners Are Made
Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global Insights team has published an update to its landmark AI Beneficiaries research, introducing a…
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
Moats vs. Inertia: Unpacking the Personal AI Agent Threat
LPL Research examines how personal AI agents may disrupt businesses that rely on consumer inertia while leaving strong competitive moats intact.
The AI Trade Might Not Be Where You Think It Is
Spending on AI isn’t the same as profiting from it. Sri Iyer and Adam Cilio explain how the Guardian i³ Investments TeamTM uses machine learning, AI, and human judgment, to separate builders, spenders and beneficiaries.
AI Everywhere, Everything
by Craig Basinger, Chief Market Strategist, & Derek Benedet, Portfolio Manager, Purpose Investments This isn’t our first tech…
What the “SaaSpocalypse” Can Teach Investors About Narratives, Fundamentals, and Time Horizons
by Thomas Shipp, Head of Equity Research, LPL Research In this month’s edition of the Equity Research team’s…
The AI Boom Has More Than One Ending
In a September 2026 whitepaper1, Meketa Investment Group researchers Alison Adams and Frank Benham argue that the AI…
The $485-billion Question
The evidence is accumulating, not arriving all at once. That is the central tension running through Goldman Sachs'…
The AI Builders Have Had Their Day. Now Watch the Adopters.
The first chapter of the AI investment story was easy to write. Buy the builders: the chip makers,…
The Moat Hunters: Why AI Disruption Is a Stock-Picker's Market, Not a Bargain Bin
Kai Wu of Sparkline Capital argues the software selloff isn't a value opportunity — it's a sorting problem.
Jurrien Timmer: Boom Bust Bubble?
by Jurrien Timmer, Director of Global Macro for Fidelity Management & Research Company Binary outcome, or a little…
Private Credit: The Narrative and The Reality
Separating signal from noise in a market under scrutiny Private credit is having its first real test. After…
SaaSpocalypse… or Just the Next Phase of Software?
On February 11th, the IGV software ETF dropped another 3%. As of yesterday, February 25, it was at…