CEO / Founder, Crea8

Kim-Hwa Lim

CEO / Founder

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Crea8

Crea8 blends AI-driven precision, big data scalability, and rigorous quantitative frameworks with seasoned human insight. By extracting actionable intelligence from vast global datasets, we eliminate emotional bias and deliver optimal risk-adjusted returns. Our hybrid approach uncovers hidden market efficiencies and ensures your capital is dynamically positioned across markets.

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li><p>The strategy seeks to invest in Shariah compliant stocks and in themes that are driving returns globally.</p></li><li><p>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</p></li><li>Previous portfolio returned 17.5% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 13.3%.</li></ul>

The strategy seeks to invest in Shariah compliant stocks and in themes that are driving returns globally.By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.Previous portfolio returned 17.5% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 13.3%.

<ul><li>The strategy seeks to invest in companies with superior sustainability features/initiatives.</li><li>These companies may be: 1) screened by avoiding issuers with negative ESG; 2) uplifted due to their commitment to improve ESG</li><li>3) included as their business models may not only benefit from but also may drive long-term sustainability outcomes; and 4) committed to generating positive, measurable and additional sustainability outcomes.</li></ul>

The strategy seeks to invest in companies with superior sustainability features/initiatives.These companies may be: 1) screened by avoiding issuers with negative ESG; 2) uplifted due to their commitment to improve ESG3) included as their business models may not only benefit from but also may drive long-term sustainability outcomes; and 4) committed to generating positive, measurable and additional sustainability outcomes.

Global Sustainability Portfolio (18-Aug-2026)

<ul><li>The strategy seeks to invest in companies that provide life’s essential goods and services.</li><li>These companies support our societal well-being and are less likely to be subject to hype.</li><li>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</li></ul>

The strategy seeks to invest in companies that provide life’s essential goods and services.These companies support our societal well-being and are less likely to be subject to hype.By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.

Global Life Essential Portfolio (18-Aug-2026)

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities, Mint Finance

Raghav Vashisht

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Three distinct ways to play AI bandwidth. LAZR buys upstream components, LYTE buys transceiver assembly, and EUV buys the semiconductor capital stack.</li>
<li>Our holdings analysis shows LAZR’s equal-weighted and current-weighted returns aligned efficiently, while LYTE’s complex leverage and cash positioning blunted its upside.</li>
<li>EUV provides diversified capex exposure, sacrificing pure-play optics for a highly balanced bet on the broader semiconductor manufacturing system required for AI scale-out.</li>
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Three distinct ways to play AI bandwidth. LAZR buys upstream components, LYTE buys transceiver assembly, and EUV buys the semiconductor capital stack.
Our holdings analysis shows LAZR’s equal-weighted and current-weighted returns aligned efficiently, while LYTE’s complex leverage and cash positioning blunted its upside.
EUV provides diversified capex exposure, sacrificing pure-play optics for a highly balanced bet on the broader semiconductor manufacturing system required for AI scale-out.


Where Is the True Value in the Optics Trade? A Comparison of 3 ETFs

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<li>CPO architectures do not eliminate InP demand; escalating power requirements for Continuous Wave lasers expand die size and crush wafer yield, potentially increasing substrate intensity per module.</li>
<li>Merchant InP supply is tighter than headline capacity implies. While all are increasing capacity, Sumitomo is increasingly captive, AXT’s export cadence dictates revenue, and JX remains a minor player.</li>
<li>While the market tracks indium prices, a major supply chain anchor is 7N red phosphorus, where a near-monopoly is held by two Japanese companies dictating substrate production limits.</li>
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CPO architectures do not eliminate InP demand; escalating power requirements for Continuous Wave lasers expand die size and crush wafer yield, potentially increasing substrate intensity per module.
Merchant InP supply is tighter than headline capacity implies. While all are increasing capacity, Sumitomo is increasingly captive, AXT’s export cadence dictates revenue, and JX remains a minor player.
While the market tracks indium prices, a major supply chain anchor is 7N red phosphorus, where a near-monopoly is held by two Japanese companies dictating substrate production limits.


[Part 1: The Materials Chokepoint] Looking Into (And Past) The Indium Price Story

United States

Coherent Corp. designs engineered materials and optoelectronic components. The Company offers products to industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent also manufactures semiconductor lasers and optics for high power industrial lasers, optical communications systems, datacenter connectivity, and 3D sensing.

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Global Thematic (Shariah) Portfolio

The strategy seeks to invest in Shariah compliant stocks and in themes that are driving returns globally. By adopting a portfolio of stocks...

Crea8

Global Sustainability Portfolio (18-Aug-2026)

The strategy seeks to invest in companies with superior sustainability features/initiatives. These companies may be: 1) screened by avoiding...

Crea8

Global Life Essential Portfolio (18-Aug-2026)

The strategy seeks to invest in companies that provide life’s essential goods and services. These companies support our societal well-being and...

Crea8

Where Is the True Value in the Optics Trade? A Comparison of 3 ETFs

Three new ETFs target the AI bandwidth bottleneck, but perform very differently. We analyse LAZR, LYTE & EUV to show why upstream components easily...

Mint Finance

[Part 1: The Materials Chokepoint] Looking Into (And Past) The Indium Price Story

AI optics demand crushes InP yield. Supply is squeezed with Sumitomo captive and AXT export-bound. Yet Japan's 7N red phosphorus monopoly is the...

Mint Finance

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