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Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>This neat and tidy method can deliver crisis protection and smoother returns to your portfolio, using just four ETFs and a once-a-month adjustment</li>
<li>When markets are choppy, it’s natural to reach for forecasts, hot takes, and the thing everyone’s talking about. </li>
<li>But sometimes the smartest move is also the simplest: following the trend. Here’s a neat and tidy way to keep your portfolio in line with where the prices are heading.</li>
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This neat and tidy method can deliver crisis protection and smoother returns to your portfolio, using just four ETFs and a once-a-month adjustment
When markets are choppy, it’s natural to reach for forecasts, hot takes, and the thing everyone’s talking about. 
But sometimes the smartest move is also the simplest: following the trend. Here’s a neat and tidy way to keep your portfolio in line with where the prices are heading.


The Stupidly Simple Trend-Following Strategy That Actually Works

Equity Bottom-Up

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. provides diagnostic, detection, and information systems for veterinary, food, and water testing applications. The Company also operates an international network of veterinary reference laboratories. IDEXX offers its products to customers worldwide.

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<li>Here’s your monthly look at the analysts’ investment ideas – and how they’ve done so far. Plus, the plays that Russell, Theodora, Reda, and Stéphane are watching now.</li>
<li>Every month, we round up how our picks and strategies are performing, and the performance data and links to the original Research Drops.</li>
<li>Our investing ideas have delivered an average absolute annualized return of 46%, outperforming their benchmarks by 22%, with a “hit rate” of 84%.</li>
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Here’s your monthly look at the analysts’ investment ideas – and how they’ve done so far. Plus, the plays that Russell, Theodora, Reda, and Stéphane are watching now.
Every month, we round up how our picks and strategies are performing, and the performance data and links to the original Research Drops.
Our investing ideas have delivered an average absolute annualized return of 46%, outperforming their benchmarks by 22%, with a “hit rate” of 84%.


How Our Research Picks Have Held Up: December 2025

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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

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Bubble fears and a broad market selloff have dragged down the stocks of neocloud companies and bitcoin miners pivoting to AI.</li>
<li>These firms have their challenges: supply chain issues, growing debt loads, uncertainty about Nvidia chip lifespans, and the rapid drop in bitcoin prices.</li>
<li>Power’s still a prized asset – so, if investor sentiment improves, miners with strong energy assets and Nebius, with its loaded contract pipeline, could be the first to benef</li>
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Bubble fears and a broad market selloff have dragged down the stocks of neocloud companies and bitcoin miners pivoting to AI.
These firms have their challenges: supply chain issues, growing debt loads, uncertainty about Nvidia chip lifespans, and the rapid drop in bitcoin prices.
Power’s still a prized asset – so, if investor sentiment improves, miners with strong energy assets and Nebius, with its loaded contract pipeline, could be the first to benef


The Shine’s Come Off The Neocloud Trade, But That Could Be An Opportunity

Independent, in-depth research from Finimize, combining bottom-up and top-down fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.

Reda Farran, CFA. Started as a sell-side equity analyst before joining an investment consultancy to help institutional investors with portfolio allocation and optimization. After that, Reda spent more than 4 years as an equity analyst at Fidelity, researching and investing in stocks across 5 different sectors including green energy and utilities.


Russell Burns, MBA. Has over 25 years experience at investment banks in London and Tokyo, a Japan-based hedge fund, and a special situations advisory firm. He uses bottom-up and top-down analysis to identify investment opportunities.

Theodora Lee Joseph, CFA. First and foremost a long-term investor, and previously spent nine years at Goldman Sachs as an equity research analyst covering European Oil & Gas and chemicals companies.

Stéphane Renevier, CFA. Started out as a multi-asset analyst at British fund manager Schroders, and later worked as a portfolio manager at Wells Fargo, where he managed long-short global macro strategies across all asset classes.