Adaptable, Dominant, Expensive: The Magnificent Seven

The S&P 500 has become so highly concentrated that it is taking on the higher risk and higher expected return characteristics of an insufficiently diversified portfolio. The largest market cap stocks in the S&P 500, appropriately dubbed the Magnificent Seven, now…

Adapting to Change: The Evolution of the Technology Market

If the history of antitrust law teaches us anything, it’s that innovation is the natural state, at least in the United States. By the time regulators focus on an issue, the market is often already working toward solving the problem.…

Evercore ISI on CapEx Spending

Oscar Sloterbeck Editor’s note: Oscar Sloterbeck is Head of Company Surveys at Evercore ISI, one of the sources of research considered by Evercore Wealth Management. The surveys are used by ISI macro and fundamental research teams to measure the evolving…

Q&A with Caroline Cai of Pzena Investment

Editor’s note: Emerging markets can afford U.S.-domiciled investors a range of diversification opportunities at relatively low valuations. Here we interview Caroline Cai, CEO and Portfolio Manager at Pzena Investment Management, one of the carefully selected outside fund managers that supplement…

Through the Looking Glass: Investing in China

Editor’s note: Neo Wang is the lead China economist/strategist at Evercore ISI, the leading U.S. research firm according to Institutional Investor’s annual survey.1 Evercore Wealth Management has limited investments in China, all of which are made through broader emerging market…

Booms and Busts: A Brief History of Capital Spending Cycles

Bill Gates has a good line on change: “People,” he says, “often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in 10.” We see evidence of that now, in the rush to exploit Artificial…

CapEx: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Public and private capital expenditure, or CapEx, is at record highs in the United States. From semiconductor manufacturing to cloud infrastructure expansion, to boosting the energy grid, incorporating Artificial Intelligence, or AI, into our lives isn’t cheap. At the same…

Q&A with Ricardo Lombardi at ICG Strategic Equity

Editor’s note: Investors interested in exposure to General Partner-led (“GP-led”) secondaries, as described by Nigel Dawn here, the global head of the Private Capital Advisory Group at Evercore, may be interested in single asset continuation vehicles. Ricardo Lombardi, Global Head of…

Q&A with Nigel Dawn on Secondary Market Continuation Funds

Editor’s note: Nigel Dawn is the global head of the Private Capital Advisory Group at Evercore, leading a global team in originating and executing secondary market transactions for owners and managers of private financial assets (private equity, private infrastructure, and…

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