Decoding the Future of MENA Financial Markets, MENA Market Lab

Denis Collot

Decoding the Future of MENA Financial Markets

MENA Market Lab

Decoding the future of Middle East and North Africa Financial markets

Cross Asset Strategy

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OPEC+ confirms production hike’s pause.                                             Moody’s upbeat on Saudi Arabia. S&amp;P downgraded Bahrain.UAE, credit growth at record pace. SAR forward curve still pushing higher.

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<li>Technological revolutions follow a sequence: they start with a disruptive “installation phase”, then go through a critical “turning point”, and are finally followed by a “deployment phase”.</li>
<li>According to Carlota Perez, AI isn’t the start of a new technological revolution: it’s a critical milestone in the current, longstanding “information and telecommunication” revolution.</li>
<li>Being aware of different phases is valuable when investing. It can help you play the contrarian card – staying cautious during the frenzy and making bolder bets during the downturns.</li>
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Technological revolutions follow a sequence: they start with a disruptive “installation phase”, then go through a critical “turning point”, and are finally followed by a “deployment phase”.
According to Carlota Perez, AI isn’t the start of a new technological revolution: it’s a critical milestone in the current, longstanding “information and telecommunication” revolution.
Being aware of different phases is valuable when investing. It can help you play the contrarian card – staying cautious during the frenzy and making bolder bets during the downturns.


AI And Investing In The New Technological Revolution

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<li>Ray Dalio actually made an art form of it: his All-Weather Portfolio spreads risk across economic scenarios like inflation, deflation, growth, and slowdowns.</li>
<li>You can improve on it by layering a simple trend filter on top. Do that, and the risk-adjusted returns get a serious boost: drawdowns shrink and the ride is smoother.</li>
<li>The traditional All-Weather Portfolio, 2x leveraged, delivered an 8.7% annual return with 13.8% volatility, and a Sharpe of 0.48. The trend-filtered version 8.2% return and a Sharpe 0.71.</li>
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Ray Dalio actually made an art form of it: his All-Weather Portfolio spreads risk across economic scenarios like inflation, deflation, growth, and slowdowns.
You can improve on it by layering a simple trend filter on top. Do that, and the risk-adjusted returns get a serious boost: drawdowns shrink and the ride is smoother.
The traditional All-Weather Portfolio, 2x leveraged, delivered an 8.7% annual return with 13.8% volatility, and a Sharpe of 0.48. The trend-filtered version 8.2% return and a Sharpe 0.71.


Ray Dalio’s All-Weather Portfolio Works In Any Market – And This Tweak Makes It Even Better

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<li>Maybe it’s 10, 20 years something like that. For me that’s long term. Um my prediction is that work will be optional.</li>
<li>The evidence speaks for itself uh but but but AI and humanoid robots will actually eliminate poverty and Tesla won’t be the only one that makes them.</li>
<li>There will still be constraints on power like electricity. The fundamental physics elements will still be constraints. Um but um I think at some point uh currency becomes irrelevant.</li>
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Maybe it’s 10, 20 years something like that. For me that’s long term. Um my prediction is that work will be optional.
The evidence speaks for itself uh but but but AI and humanoid robots will actually eliminate poverty and Tesla won’t be the only one that makes them.
There will still be constraints on power like electricity. The fundamental physics elements will still be constraints. Um but um I think at some point uh currency becomes irrelevant.


Did The Elon & Jensen Clown Show Just Crater The AI Narrative?

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<li>Fresh on the heels of his podcast meltdown, Mr. Altman has had to scramble to walk back his CFO's assertion that a potential federal bailout was on her agenda.</li>
<li>One of Mr. Altman's revenue generating ideas is to lease AI compute directly to others. Of course, that's compute capacity he can't afford to purchase in the first place. </li>
<li>Mr. Altman wants OpenAI to be all things to all people all at once. That's a strategy that rarely ends well. Let's see..</li>
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Fresh on the heels of his podcast meltdown, Mr. Altman has had to scramble to walk back his CFO's assertion that a potential federal bailout was on her agenda.
One of Mr. Altman's revenue generating ideas is to lease AI compute directly to others. Of course, that's compute capacity he can't afford to purchase in the first place. 
Mr. Altman wants OpenAI to be all things to all people all at once. That's a strategy that rarely ends well. Let's see..


OpenAI. Is The Narrative Slowly Disintegrating ?

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Mr. Altman wants OpenAI to be all things to all people all at once. That's a strategy that rarely ends well. Let's see..

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Understanding the phases of technological revolutions can guide investment strategies, with AI seen as a critical milestone in the current...

Ray Dalio's All-Weather Portfolio can be enhanced with a trend filter for improved risk-adjusted returns, reducing drawdowns, and providing a...