Post-Holiday Reflections: Navigating AI Tech Titans, Asset Allocation, and Real Returns
Hey everyone, hope you all had a wonderful holiday break with your families! I just got back into the groove after spending some quality time offline. This week is shaping up to be quite intense, especially with Micron's upcoming earnings release. Over the weekend, the three-day meetings between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump wrapped up without any groundbreaking agreements, and the subsequent statements regarding Taiwan kept geopolitical tensions lingering.
Looking at the monthly chart, the U.S. S&P 500 is hovering near its all-time high. While AI tech giants continue to drive the market forward, rising credit default swap rates due to potential overinvestment in AI data centers are hard to ignore. Even when we look at the equal-weighted S&P 500 (RSP), it's pretty clear that sectors outside of AI are facing downward pressure. It prompted me to dust off William Bernstein's classic book, The Intelligent Asset Allocator, and remind myself why extreme diversification across global large/small caps, growth/value stocks, and bonds is so critical. When you factor in inflation, the real historical return of the S&P 500 drops to around 2%, meaning we really have to work for those extra gains through smart allocation or tools like TIPS.
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