The world's largest asset manager believes the AI trade still has another decade of upside ahead.
I sat down with BlackRock's
@JayJacobsCFA to discuss how to invest in the next leg of AI bull market, the physical bottlenecks to bet on, comparing data center spending to the dot-com overbuild, and the sectors that investors are ignoring right now.
Jay is the US head of equity ETFs at BlackRock — which manages $14 trillion in assets — and he has a unique vantage point on thematic investing and building financial products.
The ideas in this conversation will surprise you.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Tech valuations declining
2:00 - 3 layers of AI
5:26 - Runway for the physical layer
7:46 - Another dot-com overbuild?
9:17 - Power constraint
11:15 - Indium, an AI choke point
14:52 -Risks in AI portfolios
16:05 - Why thematic funds beat sectors
19:25 - Defense stocks
22:10 - Healthcare
25:17 - Commodities
26:25 - Robotics
27:19 - $BTC at
@BlackRock
30:58 - Highest-conviction themes
32:57 - Why not financials?
33:53 - Follow Jay