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Venture capital outlook for 2025: 5 key trends

Our venture capital experts are encouraged by the healthier environment for venture capital in 2025. In this year's outlook, they explore key themes for the year ahead, including: higher deployment, AI, rebounding IPOs, and impacts of the 2024 election.

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EMEA Investment Forum 2024: highlights

In this short video, we share highlights from Wellington's 2024 EMEA Investment Forum, where our Wellington experts and guest speaker explored how to “Rethink the future".

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AI is hungry: What’s on the menu?

Our technology venture capital experts explore AI’s potential for disruption, highlight potential winners and losers, and dive deep into the innovation’s impact on the software industry.

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Navigating AI resource demands: Strategies for sustainable data center operations

AI's growing computational demands are raising critical questions about energy efficiency and water-resource management. We delve into strategies for enhancing sustainable data center operations, highlighting the importance of proactive resource stewardship.

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Japan’s factory automation sector: Poised for a significant upturn?

Global Industry Analyst Takuma Kamimura explains why he believes we’re on the verge of a multiyear cyclical upturn in the factory automation sector and why he sees a compelling outlook for select Japanese companies in particular.

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When public and private markets converge

Wellington President Steve Klar discusses the evolution of the public and private markets and what it means for asset owners as they seek to tap into the growth potential of private companies and be more nimble in their investment approach.

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Japan’s tech sector: Time for a reboot?

Japan's semiconductor industry has revived global interest in Japan's tech ecosystem. But we believe the dynamism of Japan's tech sector today doesn't start and end with electronics and semiconductors.

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AI governance for private companies

Explore the critical need for AI governance for private companies, addressing evolving risks, regulations, and best practices for responsible gen AI usage.

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The AI effect: Time to rethink your technology exposure?

Will AI fulfill the market's high expectations? Will it continue to drive market concentration? Head of Multi-Asset Strategy Adam Berger and Global Industry Analyst Brian Barbetta, co-head of our Technology team, discuss the outlook and the asset allocation implications.

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Thematic investing focus: how exactly will AI transform the world?

We are on the brink of a technological revolution that has major implications for all sectors, companies, labour, and regulators. How can a thematic lens help investors separate hype from reality?

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Beyond the hype: finding AI’s long-term winners

Our expert argues that a long-term mindset based on deep research can help to uncover evolving AI investment opportunities amid the hype.

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Thematic investing focus: security in a world of great-power competition

In an environment of accelerating great-power competition and geopolitical instability, policymakers may place a higher emphasis on security – even at the expense of economic efficiency. What could this mean for thematic investors?

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Private biotech: Immunology and inflammation’s third wave

Our experts discuss how I&I is building on industry progress to offer new treatment solutions and interesting opportunities for private biotech investors. 

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What route is right in emerging markets investing?

How can investors find the most compelling opportunities within emerging market equities? Simon Henry and Dáire Dunne explain why they think targeting the economic development opportunity may provide a roadmap for success. 

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Sustainable Investment Outlook

Our head of Sustainable Investment shares key areas of focus for 2023, including climate change and biodiversity, modern slavery, data privacy, shareholder rights, and impact investing, 

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Full speed ahead: China’s race to implement AI

Our experts examine market implications of China's AI expedition.

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Macro implications of the AI revolution: is the market right?

Macro Strategist John Butler sets out an initial framework to help answer key questions about the potential macro impact of artificial intelligence.

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Investing at the biopharma frontier

Rebecca Sykes details groundbreaking innovations happening today in the biopharmaceutical industry. She explains key advancements and the investment landscape for therapies targeting diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease, three of the deadliest and most expensive diseases facing the world today. 

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Private investing portfolio company interview with AMP Robotics CEO

Dr. Matanya Horowitz, CEO of AMP Robotics, highlights how the company integrates AI and robotics into the recycling industry and explores the “actionable guidance” Wellington provides on ESG and other strategic issues. 

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Thematic investing focus: a new era for medical innovation

Advances in science, tools and technologies are transforming the face of healthcare, revolutionising the diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases. How can thematic investors identify promising opportunities?

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Generative AI: Separating hype from opportunity

Two of Wellington's tech experts join host Thomas Mucha to discuss the rapidly evolving AI landscape and separate hype from reality, highlighting everything from the industries most likely to be impacted to AI's geopolitical implications.

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What AI could mean for fixed income

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Brij Khurana details the potential effects of artificial intelligence on the fixed income market.

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Seven observations on the latest US/China executive order

Geopolitical Strategist Thomas Mucha shares his analysis of the recent Biden administration executive order, which aims to restrict investment into certain sectors in China, and details the potential investment implications. 

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Biotech for the next decade: Private market innovations

We explore our latest research in private biotech innovation across immunomodulatory therapies, precision oncology, antibody drug conjugates, radiopharmaceuticals, genetic medicines, and a range of other novel treatment modalities.

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Asia Tech: Building the technology for everything, everywhere, all at once

Yash Patodia articulates the investment opportunities within generative AI and mixed reality - two themes that are supercharging the tech industry. He outlines how Asia is the bedrock of the innovation and where he believes the world’s future growth will be.

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Thematic investing focus: Cloud-backed AI and enterprise intelligence

Cloud-based computing and artificial intelligence are transforming the way enterprises operate, creating what we believe will be a secular tailwind for companies providing software, machine learning tools, and cybersecurity. 

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Uncovering opportunities in health care

Our experts analyze the ways in which innovation, digitization, and pandemic recovery come together to brighten the outlook for the health care sector.

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Health care investing: new opportunities in a challenging environment

In this insightful session moderated by Wellington CEO Jean Hynes, our global industry experts assess the current environment for health care investing and outline why advances in biopharmaceutical innovation and the evolving landscape in health care services should favor active managers with deep subsector expertise.

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Thematic investing focus: The education imperative

Education is poised for transformation — and set to see a decade of spending and growth we believe will be unmatched by any since the post-World War II boom.

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China internet: Identifying opportunities amid economic reopening 

China’s re-opening and economic recovery from its zero-COVID policy has bolstered our optimism in Chinese internet companies.

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Thematic investing focus: The future of food

The global food system has reached a tipping point and change is coming, creating investment opportunities aided by demographic, policy, and innovation tailwinds.

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Navigating the new global economy in 2023

This executive summary distills the points of view of several of our 2023 Outlook authors. Discover the risks and opportunities they see as we enter a new economic and market regime.

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Health care outlook for 2023

Looking ahead to 2023, members of our health care team see meaningful innovation, supportive valuations, and a benign political and regulatory backdrop across biopharma, medical tech, and health care services sectors.

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Fintech opportunities after the recent pullback

In four short videos, our fintech investors explore the sector's outlook amid today’s dispersion and highlight the long-term growth potential in payments, fintech incumbents, and crypto innovation.

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Fintech market overview: The intersection of disruption and dispersion 

In the latest episode of WellSaid, Portfolio Manager Matt Lipton and Global Industry Analyst Matt Ross join host Thomas Mucha to discuss their outlook for fintech in today's environment, exploring the recent pullback in the sector, disruptive fintech innovations, potential regulation, and much more.

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Biotech's new frontier
Global Industry Analyst Wen Shi highlights biotech's new frontier, profiling innovations like targeted protein degradation, gene therapy, and much more.
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The next generation of pharmaceutical innovation
Rebecca Sykes explores the exciting innovations she sees in the pharmaceutical industry today, including antibody drug conjugates, gene editing, obesity treatments, and much more.
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The growing wave of disruption in financial services
Amid today's uncertainty, Portfolio Manager Matt Lipton outlines three key reasons he believes the opportunities fueled by fintech disruption will continue.
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Fintech industry outlook in a recession
We explore the current environment for the fintech industry and highlight a few factors that show why the outlook for payments and other related subindustries may be less challenging than many may anticipate.
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How the public market correction is affecting the late-stage private equity market
The times they are a-changin’. The late-stage private equity market is digesting a public growth multiple collapse that took us from boom to bust in four months. But while valuations may be coming down in the private market as a result, the opportunity-creating trends of technology disrupting all parts of the economy and companies staying private longer remain in place.
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Crypto beyond the hype: Insights for institutional investors
We highlight a few practical insights on cryptocurrencies for institutional investors evaluating the asset class, including our views on custody, regulation, and more.
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Why I’m getting more bullish on biotech
The biotechnology sector, especially SMID-cap biotech equities, suffered a dramatic drawdown in 2021. Investor sentiment toward the sector remains poor, but my outlook has become increasingly bullish as multiple headwinds facing biotech over the past year or so begin to abate and turn into potential tailwinds for 2022 and beyond. Encouragingly, the level of innovation across the industry has never been higher, in my view. I believe many biotech stocks may be nearing a bottom, even though the exact timing of (and catalyst for) a rebound remains unclear as of this writing.
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Evaluating cryptocurrencies as an asset class
We explore cryptoassets’ potential as an asset class as the topic dominates the headlines.
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2023-02-28
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2022 Equity Outlook
Our 2022 Equity Outlook explores opportunities in equity income and emerging markets, along with trends in health care and technology for the coming year
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